• Bad China Articles: Hall of Infamy

    This week’s China Blog post was originally published on The Anthill, a “writers colony” focused on writings about China, edited by …

    Why Chinese TV Should Be More Like French TV

    By Paul French If you want to understand a country’s national obsessions and public concerns, watch their TV crime dramas. …

    City of Reinvention: A Review of Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement

    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Shanghai is a city of reinvention. The metropolis has transformed over the past two centuries from …

    Why Study Journalism in China?

    Photo: Wang Zihao. © Dou Yiping By Lu-Hai Liang and Dou Yiping China’s journalism schools, like those in many countries, are …

    Graffiti in Beijing

    By Cutler Dozier A skinny 21-year-old Beijinger with shoulder length hair, wearing baggy jeans and a worn t-shirt, stares through his …

    Satire, Cyberspace and the 25th Anniversary of the June 4th Massacre

    I learned several weeks ago that China Digital Times was about to publish Crazy Crab’s Chinese Dream in Cartoons, an …

    A Tale of Two First Books: A Conversation with NPR’s Louisa Lim and The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos

    In 2008, I wrote in the Guardian that there had recently been a “notable acceleration” in the frequency with which “illuminating …

    Xi Jinping’s Peculiar Packaging of the May 4th Spirit

    By Rebecka Eriksson Early this month, Chinese top leader Xi Jinping made a high profile visit to China’s most prestigious …

    A Trip Back to Beijing — Courtesy of Xu Zechen and Eric Abrahamsen

    By Megan Shank Step out of the Beijing airport, and taste the tang in the air. For the remainder of …

    Reading Middlemarch in Jiangxi

    By Mengfei Chen Is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune …