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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...

Story and History

Five recent Chinese books in translation apply different prisms — pictures, poetry, fiction, memoir — to draw narratives out of complicated personal and political histories.

Travelers’ Dispatches

Five recent travel books published in China explore the world beyond, from Peru to Japan. We consider how Chinese travelogues show unique perspectives.

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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May 27, 5:30-7pm; Asia Society NYC

Tahir Hamut Izgil: Waiting To Be Arrested at Night

Join our book club in May to discuss Uyghur poet-in-exile Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, a harrowing account of one family’s escape from the persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, translated by Joshua L. Freeman and interspersed with Tahir’s own poems.
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