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Ep. 3: How China’s Future Looked in the Past

A 20th century Chinese public intellectual fell for the socialist dream, only to become disillusioned. His biographer tells us the full story.

The Bones Remember

Three new books grapple with the suppressed histories of modern China, from the Cultural Revolution to the Covid pandemic. But for every state effort to...

Yasheng Huang on Autocracy vs. Creativity

From its earliest imperial history, China's bureaucratic system and civil service exams have ensured homogeneity and control. But at what price?

The Shadow of Chiang Kai-shek

China’s nationalist former leader has a mixed legacy. Two new books present him in a revisionist light — but what inheritance did the Generalissimo really...

Ep. 2: American Correspondents in China

Foreign correspondents have been instrumental in telling the story of how China has changed since World War II. So, we turned the microphone on them.

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...

Peter Fleming: News from Tartary

The British adventurer’s 1936 account of his journey across the Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang shows its age but remains a classic of travel writing.

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...

Ep. 1: Chinese Fiction in the Reform Era

When China opened up in the 1980s, how did fiction writers respond to their new-found — but fragile — freedoms of expression? The China Books...

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...

How to Deal with the Chinese Revolution

In a 1966 essay, the American historian and father of Chinese Studies reflects on centuries-old cultural and political differences in the (then) early days of...

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Ep. 3: How China’s Future Looked in the Past

The Bones Remember

Yasheng Huang on Autocracy vs. Creativity

The Shadow of Chiang Kai-shek

Ep. 2: American Correspondents in China

A Contested Century

Peter Fleming: News from Tartary

A Spark Extinguished

Ep. 1: Chinese Fiction in the Reform Era

Mao to Now

How to Deal with the Chinese Revolution

June 30, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC

Panel: Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future

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