• 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.

    Our Favorite Things

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    Before becoming part of the LARB’s “China Blog” team (indeed, before that publication even began), several of the people who …

    Late-Breaking Iran and China News: A 1979 Flashback

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    by Jeffrey Wasserstrom The weekend before Thanksgiving was a big one for international headlines. The biggest breaking story, coming out …

    Writing about China and Eponymous Adjectives

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    By Paul French In the wake of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “Third Plenum” — the first policy-focused general meeting …

    Gene Luen Yang on Relying on Stories, Creating Boxers & Saints

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    By Angilee Shah It’s not that the concept of Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints is complex: two volumes tell …

    Art and Globalization

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    By Tong Lam In recent years, the number of applicants to Chinese art schools has increased dramatically. Earlier this year, …

    Censorship, Translation and the Chinese Market

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    “To me the choice was easy…I thought it was better to have 90 percent of the book available here than …

    Hong Kong, Beyond the Neon Lights

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    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham I doubt anyone goes to Hong Kong specifically to explore the Ping Shan or Lung Yeuk …

    Jogging the Memory

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    By James Carter With Fall Break relieving me from teaching for a few days, I recently spent a week in …

    Abandoned Theme Parks

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    By Tong Lam Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has begun to try to boost the domestic economy by encouraging …

    Troubled Waters

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    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham On a recent visit to Beijing, I spent a few hours one Saturday afternoon wandering the …