Under Merkel and Scholz, Germany was criticized as being soft on China. Three new books explain the backstory to Berlin’s relationship with Beijing, and how...
The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist...
Since the 1990s, Liao Yiwu has been gathering oral histories of Chinese experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Then in 2011, harangued by the...
Sino-American ties are reaching new lows. A new book looks back to the 1970s, when the relationship began, to question whether “people’s diplomacy” at sub-governmental...
At an Asia Society event, Dr. Kevin Rudd discussed his new book on Xi Jinping’s ideological worldview, and its implications for China’s political direction.
China’s dissident writer was an exemplar of iconoclastic intellectual spirit, pursuing a more humane society despite state repression. A new biography draws the arc of...
Join us at Asia Society in New York to hear acclaimed journalist Barbara Demick discuss her new book, following the lives of Chinese twins separated at birth — and the extraordinary efforts to reunite them — in conversation with NPR correspondent Emily Feng.
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