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Announcing the 2024 Winners

Presenting the winners (and honorable mentions) for the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize, with awards in both nonfiction and translated literature.

What China Read in 2024

Five books published in China last year, from fiction to memoir, reveal a nation still reeling from the pandemic, and finding a new literary voice...

Best China Books of 2024

Party luminaries. TV chefs. Poetry. Scandal. Our annual round-up of notable titles on or from China, split across nonfiction and translated literature, nominated by a...

Summer China Reads

Five new China books for your summer reading list, from an intergenerational family memoir to a children's picture book of the Cultural Revolution.
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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.