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Dancing To Prison

1983’s Strike Hard Against Crime Campaign led to the arrests of many innocent victims, caught up in a culture of fear. One of them was...

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.
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Jun 11, 6:30pm

Book talk: Joseph Torigian on Xi Jinping’s Father

Register now to hear author and academic Joseph Torigian discuss the life of CCP revolutionary leader Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping's father, subject of his new biography "The Party's Interests Come First" (Stanford University Press, 2025), moderated by Orville Schell.