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Party Man

China’s first paramount leader since Mao is, for all the ink spilled on him, a black box. But behind the speculation over his intent, Xi...

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...

Expulsion!

In early 2020, at the height of China’s early Covid epidemic, over a dozen American journalists were expelled from the nation. Where does that leave...

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...

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...
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Wed Nov 20 6:30pm

Book Talk: Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Join us at Asia Society in New York for a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about their time at the New York Times Beijing bureau in the late 1980s, as chronicled in Kristof's recent memoir "Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life."