By Susan Blumberg-Kason I met Stephanie Han at a literary event in Hong Kong back in 2014, but we didn’t …
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.
Awakening, Returning, and Looking Forward: An Interview with Ian Johnson
By Ting Guo It is March in Beijing. Many local friends tell me that it is the loveliest month here, …
Follow the Money — Silk, Silver, and 16th Century-Style Globalization
By Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales Lost travelers, when asking for directions at a country store in the backwoods …
Reflections on Silk Roads: An Interview with Peter Frankopan
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Oxford historian Peter Frankopan’s much-praised book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, first published …
The Upside Down World: Shadows of Cold War Ghosts in Stranger Things
By Ting Guo With Stranger Things, Netflix produced an original science fiction drama that went viral. But for me, it …
The Subtle Brilliance of Mr. Donkey
By Josh Freedman Moviegoers in China pull no punches skewering the big-budget, low-quality offerings that dominate at the country’s theaters. Famed …
How to Be a Good Communist
By Austin Dean Last summer, a bookstore in the Shanghai Pudong Airport listed an unlikely bestseller: To be Turned into …
Of Exports, Envoys, Boxers, and Books — Midwestern Links to the Middle Kingdom
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom The first English language publication to include a detailed profile of Mao Zedong, Edgar Snow’s Red Star …
Trickle-Down Censorship in China: An Interview with JFK Miller
I first became acquainted with JFK Miller through Whyiwrite.net, a site he founded and curates of interviews with authors who …
My Mother’s Dumplings
By Mengfei Chen The first time I made dumplings on my own, I didn’t know how much salt to add. …