An award-winning novel set in Japanese-occupied Taiwan explores the relationship between colonizer and subaltern, translator and translated — and how some distances can’t be closed.
Five recent titles show there is more to the island than just politics, from historical profiles to a cookbook that sets Taiwanese and Chinese cuisine...
Join us to hear award-winning NPR correspondent Emily Feng talk about her new book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," a collection of narratives of state oppression and grassroots push-back in China — and the challenges she faced while reporting it, culminating in her own expulsion — in conversation with China Books Review editor Alec Ash.