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Liao Yiwu: The Storyteller

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...

The Martyrdom of Liu Xiaobo

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...
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May 22, 6:30pm

Book launch: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

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.