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