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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 31/03/2026

We're pleased to announce a shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize in literature: the 2025 Award for Outstanding Literature from or on China or the Sinophone World — selected by an independent jury. Read the shortlist: chinabooksreview.com/2026/03/31/s...

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 23/03/2026

Come listen to my book talk (Chinese edition!) about my Dali book, 大理一年, to hear why people are leaving Chinese cities to move to the mountains. Sunday Apr 12, 6pm at Accent Sisters (right by Union Square, 89 5th ave 702), Luma link to register and support the venue, only $10: luma.com/042mtzx2

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Alec Ash 大理一年 The Mountains Are High - Book Launch · Luma

About the Book Launch What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, “reverse migrating” from the…

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 16/09/2025

Last chance to register to listen to @danwwang talking about Chinese Engineers vs. US Lawyers and his NYT bestselling book "Breakneck" at @AsiaSocietyNYC tonight, I'm introducing for @chinabksreview! asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

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Dan Wang on Engineers vs. Lawyers

Join technology specialist Dan Wang to discuss his new book, in conversation with Julian Gewirtz, a former senior official in the Biden administration.

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 11/09/2025

Thrilled to be featured in an interview on《大理一年》(Chinese edition of Mtns Are High) for the excellent 界面世界: jiemian.com/article/1322... and first podcast recording in Chinese for 忽左忽右 which was a treat: ximalaya.com/sound/909478...

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从北京到“大理福尼亚”：一个英国作家在中国的十五年|界面新闻 · 文化

从城市逃离的人过着平静而丰富的生活，却也面临着各自的心灵困境。

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 23/07/2025

This was a real question in the New York state pre-licensing course quiz to get a driver's license. There was no other information on the page. I'm stuck in the twilight zone.

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 07/07/2025

“You cannot live in the world acting like the world is going to end in five years, even if it is, in fact, going to end in five years,” they said. “You’re just going to go insane.” great piece by @jcbeam www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/b...

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She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 25/05/2025

For those in DC, come next Friday to JF Books to hear me talk about my Dali book (and upcoming Chinese edition of it) with Emily Feng

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 17/04/2025

"The Chinese typewriter as an exotic impossibility is but one cultural manifestation of the long, charged debate over the relationship between modernity and the Chinese script."https://chinabooksreview.com/2025/04/17/chinese-type/

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 31/03/2025

Did you wake up this morning wondering what Pontius Pilate has in common with Mao Zedong? Sure you did! Come to this @asiasocietyny event on Weds to feed the brainworm asiasociety.org/center-us-china-rel…

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🔔🔔🔔Alert for those in NYC! Don’t miss @alecash.bsky.social's upcoming book talk at @asiasociety.org with @npr.org's @emilyzfeng.bsky.social about her new book “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom” For more info visit: chinabooksreview.com Link to tickets: asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

China Books Review: Read China Books Review, an award-winning digital magazine on all things China and bookish. Explore our reviews, essays, excerpts, profiles, podcast and book lists. Chinabooksreview.com
Upcoming Book Talk: Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping's China
Tue Mar 25, 6:30pm
Asia Society, New York

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 17/03/2025

Don't miss our upcoming book talk with NPR correspondent Emily Feng, discussing her book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," identity in Xi Jinping's China, and her own journey as a journalist – in conversation with China Books Review editor Alec Ash. Register now to secure your seat! buff.ly/r73hVTg

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Emily Feng on Identity in Xi Jinping's China

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 10/03/2025

We've updated our comprehensive listings of China books! Browse our lists of recent, upcoming and bestselling books, and editor's picks from the pack. RECENT: buff.ly/GoD7XfJ UPCOMING: buff.ly/kXWHeeJ BESTSELLING: buff.ly/LN9brus EDITOR'S PICKS: buff.ly/IGy1mGH

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 06/03/2025

"According to Fulda, Germany’s relationship with China was shaped by decades of flourishing trade at the expense of its values." Michael Laha weighs in on Germany's China strategy at this critical moment, in our new review essay at @chinabksreview chinabooksreview.com/2025/03/06/g...

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Can Germany Find a Better China Strategy? | China Books Review

Under Merkel and Scholz, Germany was criticized as being soft on China. Three new books explain the backstory to Berlin’s relationship with Beijing, and how — with a new Chancellor incoming — the pros...

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 25/02/2025

When I left China I was looking forward to not needing to show my ID and answer a hundred pointless questions whenever I entered a university campus. Now I live in America and have to do the same every time I enter Columbia University campus.

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 12/02/2025

Finally giving up on X and trying to post more here, if only occasionally or cross-posted. Will mostly be a read account, to see if it can capture that magic of early Twitter

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 12/02/2025

Thrilled to make it onto NPR's list of their fave books of 2024. "In this beautifully written book, Ash introduces us to [the urban escapees who] fittingly call Dali “Dalifornia,” for its chilled vibes." More press at alecash.net/the-mountain... apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

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Books We Love

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

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Alec Ash @alecash.net · 08/02/2025

Recently discovered this (pretty funny, if bitter and stalkery) 2017 piss-take of me and some of my friends, “Beijing’s Expat Brat Pack”. "Ash, who is only five foot two (157 cm), nonetheless stands as a vivid prototype of the expats he seems to lead." www.reddit.com/r/China/comm...

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From the China community on Reddit: “Beijing’s Expat Brat Pack” | a long-read satire of the China Writer scene

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