• Swimming in Hong Kong: An Interview with Stephanie Han

    By Susan Blumberg-Kason I met Stephanie Han at a literary event in Hong Kong back in 2014, but we didn’t …

    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. …