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The Missing Pages

The Missing Pages

Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained...
Tiananmen in Fiction

Tiananmen in Fiction

After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone...
Xu Zhiyuan on Chinese Intellectuals

Xu Zhiyuan on Chinese Intellectuals

A journalist, author, bookstore owner and vlogger talks about the legacy of Liang Qichao, the changing nature of China’s intellectual scene, and whether studying history...
The Bomb is Back

The Bomb is Back

The myth of China's nuclear restraint obscures the dangers of its rapidly expanding arsenal. A trio of recent books take us from the bomb’s origins...
Colonial Adventures

Colonial Adventures

When a British diplomat was found murdered in southwest China in 1875, near the Burmese border, a political spat was triggered that would have wide-ranging...
Keeping The Party Going

Keeping The Party Going

A French-language biography shows how Hua Guofeng, the oft-maligned successor to Mao, was pivotal in bridging the Party from the madness of the Cultural Revolution...
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Sep 8, 5:30-7p, NYC; Sep 1, 6-7:30p, DC

Book Club: Eileen Chang's Time Tunnel

Join us in September to discuss our next book club pick: "Time Tunnel," a collection of previously untranslated stories by Eileen Chang, one of the 20th century’s finest writers, 30 years after her death.
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