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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...

The Reverse Migrants

After decades of urbanization and economic development, a cohort of China's population is seeking rural refuge and personal development instead — moving back to the...

One for the History Books

How Endymion Wilkinson’s encyclopedia of Chinese history grew from 70,000 words in 1973 to 1.75 million words for its 50th anniversary edition.

Tears of Salt

Rural women in China have been disadvantaged and abused for millennia. A star Chinese journalist shows how in one village, little has changed.
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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.