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Dancing in Chains

Squeezed by both political and commercial pressures, China’s book publishers face an existential crisis. How can the industry survive, let alone publish anything interesting?

The Nanny’s Tale

A migrant worker leaves her own child behind to survive, becoming a nanny in Beijing. When she hears of a literary community for migrants, she...

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...
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July 1, 5:30pm

Book club: "Soft Burial"

Join us on July 1 in New York (or June 25 in D.C.) to discuss "Soft Burial" by Fang Fang (translated by Michael Berry), a controversial Chinese novel that follows the aftermath of the bloody land reform campaign of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Spots limited, register now to secure your seat.