• A Writer Living in a Strange Land: An Interview with Xue Yiwei

    By Amy Hawkins With an eye toward providing readers interested in both China and James Joyce with a fitting reading …

    How Fan Yusu Wrote Dignity Back Into Migrants’ Lives

    By Ting Guo Last month, an article written by a migrant worker named Fan Yusu went viral  on Chinese social …

    Crashing the Party: An Interview with Scott Savitt

    By Matthew Robertson Editor’s Introduction: The China Blog often publishes something at this time of year that looks back in …

    Hong Kong on a Bad Day: On Karen Fang’s Arresting Cinema

    By Susan Blumberg-Kason When British director Ridley Scott was filming his 1982 sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner, he instructed his …

    The Trial of the Gang of Four — As History and Current Events

    By Liz Carter Forced confessions, show trials, and crises of legitimacy. These are topics covered in Alexander C. Cook’s important …

    On China’s Great Books: An Interview with Frances Wood

    By Paul French Retirement from her post as the Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library in London seemingly …

    What’s New in Studies of Early 20th-Century China?

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom It’s easy to imagine a book on the trafficking of people in China around a hundred years …

    In the Last Days of Old Shanghai

    By Susan Blumberg-Kason For well over half-a-century, novelists have been setting tales in 1930s Shanghai, an unusually cosmopolitan city that …

    Ultra-Real China

    By Robert Foyle Hunwick Truth is stranger than fiction, Mark Twain observed, because it’s not obliged to probability: a novel …

    Commemorating an Anti-Authoritarian Provocateur: Reflections on Wang Xiaobo (May 13, 1952–April 11, 1997)

    By Sebastian Veg Wang Xiaobo, an important Chinese literary and intellectual figure who died of a heart attack 20 years ago …