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