By Paul French Every so often, a novel that captures the essence and flavors of the modern China experience is …
The Book the China Crowd Missed – Lawrence Osborne’s The Ballad of a Small Player
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Kongfuzi: The Other Chinese Website You Should Know About
By Austin L. Dean By now you have probably heard of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that had a gargantuan …
The Mailman Cometh: A Door-to-Door Taobao Delivery
By Alec Ash Anyone who lives in China orders a lot from Taobao, the online shopping hub owned by the …
Finding the Monkey King in Mong Kok
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Note: All photos were taken in Mong Kok on the morning of November 8. The drawing in …
Taking the Edge Off in Troubled Times: Healthy Habits for Conscientious Cadres
By Austin Dean It can’t be much fun to be a Chinese Communist Party official these days. On the one …
Diary of a Summit: Thoughts on Life in Beijing During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
By Mengfei Chen Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping hosted the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing. For Xi, …
The Beautiful and Damned
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham In a post here at the LARB China Blog last month, Austin Dean discussed the recent …
Hong Kong 2014 — A Post Before a Visit
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom When this post goes live on November 5, I will have just arrived in Hong Kong. I’m …
The Unlikely Success of Harold Fry’s Pilgrimage
By Paul French A boring Englishman leaves home one morning to post a letter while his wife runs the vacuum …
Remembering the 1930s and 1940s, or Reliving Them?
By Austin Dean The writer Xiao Hong is everywhere in China these days. Her face recently graced the covers of …
