• Take Me Out to the Ballgame, in Taipei

    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham At precisely 6:35pm on a Thursday night, exactly as scheduled, the ChinaTrust Brother Elephants took the …

    China’s Forgotten World War II: A Q&A with Rana Mitter

    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham As my last China Blog column was on China’s forgotten World War I, I decided that …

    Blasts from the Past: Chinese Nostalgia for the 1980s in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Photo: Scene from American Dreams in China By Austin Dean In a speech at the 35th anniversary of academic exchanges between …

    Finding One’s Own Way Through the Woods: A Q & A with Short Story Writer Jack Livings

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom One of the best works of fiction I’ve read in recent months is The Dog: Stories by …

    How to Be a Male God: Beijing’s Pick Up Artist Scene

    By Alec Ash Xia’er, a 22-year-old music graduate from Hunan Province, is short, with a boyish complexion and no steady …

    Love, or Nearest Offer: A Vignette From Beijing’s Marriage Market

    Photo: Mr. Sun browsing the marriage market. By Alec Ash Mr. Sun is 67, with a helmet-shaped mop of silver …

    Tricks of Two Trades: A Q&A on Writing News Reports and Spy Novels with Night Heron Author Adam Brookes

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom I’ve known Adam Brookes since 1999, when we met in Beijing where he was covering China for …

    China’s Forgotten World War I

    Photo: The dedication of the WWI memorial in Shanghai, in 1924. By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham World War I has always …

    The Opium War Comes to America (the Book, That is): A Q & A With Julia Lovell

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom This week’s China Blog interview is with Julia Lovell, a British specialist in Chinese studies who teaches …

    Made in Bulgaria

    Photo: A Made-in-Bulgaria Chinese pickup truck on display near the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria. By Tong Lam …