By Alec Ash A Yi is a Chinese novelist with an unusual story. Born in 1976, he was a police …
Crime and Penmanship: A Q&A with A Yi
The China Blog
LARB’s China Blog covers the life, culture, politics and literature of China. It is edited by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. If you’re looking for blog posts prior to September 2013, please visit our China Blog tumblr page.
There Be Dragons
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Dragons and China. It’s the biggest fucking cliché. If you ever go looking for books about …
A New Biography of China’s Imprisoned Nobel Laureate: A Q&A with Jean-Philippe Béja
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Rowman and Littlefield recently published Steel Gate to Freedom : The Life of Liu Xiaobo, a translation of …
Expat Identities
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham In my last China Blog post, I interviewed Hong Kong-based author Shannon Young, who talked about …
Reading Material for the Rails
By Austin Dean Chinese high-speed railway stations are overwhelming places, simultaneously cavernous and crowded. The main terminal usually spans one …
The Impact of Confucius: A Q&A with Michael Schuman
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Veteran Asia correspondent Michael Schuman, now living in Beijing, has reported from various parts of East Asia …
Q&A with Shannon Young, Author of “Year of Fire Dragons”
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Shannon Young doesn’t content herself to work in only one genre. I first came across her …
Seeking Alpha in 1992 Shanghai
By Austin Dean Recently in the main reading room of the Shanghai Municipal Library, the guy sitting next to me …
On Yan Lianke’s Fiction: Q & A with Translator and Literary Scholar Carlos Rojas
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Yan Lianke is an award-winning fiction writer in China, and has also been recognized internationally with the …
The Greening of Asia — An Interview with Mark Clifford
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Mark L. Clifford is executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Business Council. Clifford’s impressive resume includes …
