By Austin Dean Chinese Central Television (CCTV) likely provides more news to more people than any other media organization on …
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The Case of the Mistaken Maps
By Austin Dean Maps are at the center of every territorial dispute. My map says this parcel of land over …
Bare Branches: Speed-Dating Games on Singles Day
By Alec Ash Just as the cold winds sweep the last leaves off Beijing’s trees, November 11 was Singles, or …
Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War, A Q&A with Dr. Anne Witchard
By Paul French Anne Witchard’s England’s Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War is the final volume in the Penguin …
Free Speech and Its Enemies in Greater China
Image: “Let’s show Hong Kongers what it means to kneel for your country!” Soon after Wang Liming (a.k.a. Rebel Pepper) …
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 …
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 …
Finding One’s Own Way Through the Woods: A Q & A with Short Story Writer Jack Livings
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom One of the best works of fiction I’ve read in recent months is The Dog: Stories by …
China’s Forgotten World War I
Photo: The dedication of the WWI memorial in Shanghai, in 1924. By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham World War I has always …
Bad China Articles: Hall of Infamy
This week’s China Blog post was originally published on The Anthill, a “writers colony” focused on writings about China, edited by …