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A Contested Century

In China, the 19th century is presented as an era of national humiliation. Two new books and an exhibition attempt to humanize it. But who...

A Spark Extinguished

At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the...

Mao to Now

Communist China, once all but impenetrable, opened up only to tighten politically again. Has Xi circled back to the Mao era? And what can we...
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Jun 11, 6:30pm

Book talk: Joseph Torigian on Xi Jinping’s Father

Register now to hear author and academic Joseph Torigian discuss the life of CCP revolutionary leader Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping's father, subject of his new biography "The Party's Interests Come First" (Stanford University Press, 2025), moderated by Orville Schell.