By Paul French Anne Witchard’s England’s Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War is the final volume in the Penguin …
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.
The Pessimistic and Optimistic Case for the Future of Innovation in China
By Austin Dean It is always interesting when two books released at nearly the same time — written by two …
Free Speech and Its Enemies in Greater China
Image: “Let’s show Hong Kongers what it means to kneel for your country!” Soon after Wang Liming (a.k.a. Rebel Pepper) …
The Book the China Crowd Missed – Lawrence Osborne’s The Ballad of a Small Player
By Paul French Every so often, a novel that captures the essence and flavors of the modern China experience is …
Kongfuzi: The Other Chinese Website You Should Know About
By Austin L. Dean By now you have probably heard of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that had a gargantuan …
The Mailman Cometh: A Door-to-Door Taobao Delivery
By Alec Ash Anyone who lives in China orders a lot from Taobao, the online shopping hub owned by the …
Obsessing Over JG Ballard and His Terrible City
All images by James H. Bollen. By Paul French James H. Bollen is a British photographer, author, and translator based …
Holiday Book Ideas From The China Blog
Back around the turn of the decade, when the “China Beat” was still up and running as a blog, rather …
The East (Side) is Red
By James Carter The Grolier Club, sitting today in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the United States, just around …
Finding the Monkey King in Mong Kok
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Note: All photos were taken in Mong Kok on the morning of November 8. The drawing in …