• An Interview with Paul French on Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Penguin China is having a busy summer when it comes to releasing short books in its “specials” …

    Announcing the LARB China Channel

    Dear China Blog Readers, Thanks to a generous seed grant from the Henry Luce Foundation as well as support from …

    A Collective Grief: Mourning Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong on July 15, 2017

    By Yvonne Yevan Yu It was a day of migrating rainclouds, which meant random gusts, a thickness almost tangible on …

    The Varied Views of Dissidents in China — A Response to James Palmer

    By Maria Repnikova In the wake of Liu Xiaobo’s tragic death, Western news sites have been filled with assessments of …

    Liu Xiaobo: An Initial Post of Commemoration

    A Collectively Compiled Compendium in memory of Liu Xiaobo, Chinese writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died on July …

    How Class in China Became Politically Incorrect

    Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of China Blog pieces by Louisa Lim, building off episodes of …

    Singing for Democracy in Hong Kong

    By Alec Ash In October 2014 I travelled to Hong Kong for a friend’s wedding. I had booked my flight …

    A Long View of American Policy in Asia: On Michael Green’s By More Than Providence

    By Graham Webster In Michael J. Green’s rich and ambitious history of US strategic thinking toward Asia, one question stands …

    Could Hong Kong become Tibet 2.0?

    By Louisa Lim Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of short LARB China Blog pieces by Louisa …