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Yan Geling: Crossing the Red Line

The acclaimed novelist and screenwriter built an audience in China for her powerful historical narratives. Then, somewhere, she crossed a line. What is it like...

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...

Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping’s China

The award-winning NPR correspondent talks about her new book, the challenges of reporting in China, and what it means to be Chinese when the state...

The Thief Who Became a Celebrity

When Zhou Liqi went viral for stealing scooters to protest lack of opportunity, he sparked a debate between the popular movement of “lying flat” and...

Workers of the World, Rewrite!

A Chinese non-fiction writer finds himself in the same straits as the migrant laborer-artists of Picun village whom he profiles.

Socialism with Socratic Characteristics

In attempting to justify Communist Party rule, Chinese academics have turned to an unlikely intellectual ally — classical Greek philosophy.

Ian Johnson on China Correspondence, from 1984 to Now

The Pulitzer-winning journalist tells the story of his first trip to China in 1984, and how it changed his views on foreign reporting.

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...