By Mengfei Chen Is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune …
Reading Middlemarch in Jiangxi
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What Do Chinese Women Want?
Photo: Mary Guo in Beijing, April 15, 2014. By Lu-Hai Liang Let’s start with Mary. Well that’s her English name anyway. …
Noir Visions, Part 2—All the Spies in China
My last post focused on whodunits and true crime books with Chinese settings, but its title, “Noir Visions of China’s …
Noir Visions of China’s Past and Present
I won’t say that an interest in criminal activity led me to a career teaching and writing about China, but …
Goodbye, Chiang!
By Tong Lam One of the most iconic scenes in the 2003 German tragicomedy film Goodbye, Lenin!, which depicts drastic …
Ping-Pong Powerhouses and Table Tennis Tales
Photo courtesy the Richard Nixon Foundation By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham The 1971 “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” between China and the United States …
Confucius, Mao, and the Little Red Book
All Photos by Jeffrey Wasserstrom I’ve just returned from a trip to China that began with a week in Shanghai, …
The Other Shore: On Virginia Pye’s River of Dust
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Virginia Pye wrote her debut novel, River of Dust, in only 28 days. But as she …
A Short Look at the Long Literary History of Spies in Asia
By Paul French One of the most noteworthy books set to hit the U.S. market next week is Olivia Milburn …
Grassroots NGOs
By Tong Lam For many Chinese people, their exposure to the concept of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and their potential for …
