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