• The Man Who Stayed Behind—At Chinese Central Television

    By Austin Dean Chinese Central Television (CCTV) likely provides more news to more people than any other media organization on …

    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 …