Books & arts
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
Books & arts
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians
Books & arts
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
Books & arts
1 September 2023
A fascinating examination of the Chinese economy leaves one big question unanswered
Books & arts
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Books & arts
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
International
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
International
28 October 2021
China is waking up to the downside of its world-beating level of alcohol consumption
International
4 October 2021
Beijing’s crackdown on niangpao reflects anxieties dating back to Europe’s nineteenth-century incursions
Books & arts
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
International
3 September 2021
Chinese podcasts offer revealing, moving and sometimes funny insights into life in the People’s Republic
From the archive
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
Books & arts
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
International
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes Linda Jaivin. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
Books & arts
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel The Fat Years, now available in English