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 our November book club, in either New York (Asia Society) or Washington, D.C. (JF Books), for an evening of spirited discussion and community centered on Yu Hua's latest novel "City of Fiction," an epic tale of love and violence in 20th century China.
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