Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour of 1992 has been heralded as the unofficial act that kick-started China’s economic miracle. But other voices were also calling for...
A supernatural crisis pits an anxious autocrat against his own functionaries, when a hunt for soul-stealing sorcerers turns into a political witch-hunt among 18th-century China’s...
Three recent books narrate family histories that flow over time and space. But when identities evolve across borders, language holds the memory that carries us...
Chinese intellectuals played a critical role in China’s opening during the 1980s, and the protests of 1989. In a new podcast collaboration, we talked to...
The brutality of Maoist Red Guards is well documented, but lesser known in relation to Tibet, where its spiritual damage ran deep. Few records remained...
Join us at Asia Society in New York to hear acclaimed journalist Barbara Demick discuss her new book, following the lives of Chinese twins separated at birth — and the extraordinary efforts to reunite them — in conversation with NPR correspondent Emily Feng.
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