• Finding a Common Thread: A History of Chinese Language

    Anne Henochowicz* Sitting in the hushed, stained-glass light of my university’s architecture library, I made stacks of flashcards. I reverently …

    What Shaped Korean Translated Literature?  

    By Charles Montgomery The LARB Korea Blog is currently featuring selections from The Explorer’s History of Korean Fiction in Translation, …

    How Long Do You Intend to Stay? Via New Haven-Dieppe and John Berger

    By John Shannon In 1939 Henry Miller published a humorous autobiographical sketch in the forgotten pacifist journal Phoenix (Vol. 2, …

    Shifting Towards Clinton: A Voter’s Evolution

    By Da Chen During my recent visit to China, I was astounded by the media’s obsession with Donald Trump, the …

    The Union Libel: On the Argument Against Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed

    By Emmett Rensin The National Labor Relations Board has reversed itself for the second time in this century: graduate student …

    Nuts! The Bursting of the Chinese Walnut Bubble

    By Austin Dean Walk down the street in Beijing and you’ll encounter a certain type of character: buzz cut, paunchy …

    That’s Korean Entertainment: the Freakishly Fluent Foreigners of Non-Summit

    By Colin Marshall “Whatever you do,” fellow foreigners here in Korea occasionally tell me, “don’t go on television.” Easy enough …

    Academics, Journalists—Everyone Is Miserable! Hug!

    By Noah Berlatsky Writers are jealous critters. You don’t put your name out there unless you think your name deserves …

    Thinking and Writing about Inner Asia: A Q&A with Rian Thum

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I recently caught up by email with New Orleans-based historian Rian Thum to ask him a variety …

    Profsplaining, or, The Internet IS a Classroom, Whinypants!

    By Maria Bustillos “The Internet is not a classroom,” pop-culture scholars Amanda Ann Klein and Kristen Warner write in a …