• Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War, A Q&A with Dr. Anne Witchard

    By Paul French Anne Witchard’s England’s Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War is the final volume in the Penguin …

    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 …