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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 09/10/2026

Read the excerpt from "Our Hearts Burned for Home" by Emily Feng at: chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/08/u...

China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 07/10/2026

Listen to the new podcast episode with our "What China's Reading" columnist Na Zhong, hosted by Alexander Boyd: chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/06/3...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 02/10/2026

Read Paul French's essay about J.G. Ballard's boyhood in Shanghai: chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/01/b...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 30/09/2026

Read Jeremiah Jenne on Shen Fu's "Six Records of a Floating Life": chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/29/s...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 28/09/2026

We've got a stellar line-up of events this fall, from book talks by Jung Chang (Wild Swans) and Emily Feng (Our Hearts Burned for Home) to panel discussions. Click-through to register now, using code CBR15 to save $15 as a China Books Review reader: chinabooksreview.com/events/

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 25/09/2026

Read the excerpt from Orville Schell's new book "Inside China's Secret Prisons": chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/24/i...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 23/09/2026

See what books from China Na Zhong recommended in her latest "What China's Reading" column: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/22/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 18/09/2026

Read Hannah Borenstein's review of "Immunity on Trial" and "Made in Ethiopia": chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/17/a...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 16/09/2026

Read the latest My China Bookshelf column, a conversation with literary translator John Minford: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/15/j...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 14/09/2026

Emily Feng: Uyghurs in Syria Hear NPR correspondent Emily Feng talk about her new book on the untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China only to become a pivotal force in the Syrian Civil War, moderated by NYT journalist Michael Forsythe. Register now: asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 11/09/2026

Read Jeff Tompkin's profile of the author Bill Porter, better known as "Red Pine": chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/10/r...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 09/09/2026

Read Jack Hargreaves' latest column of Translated Chinese Literature recommendations: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/08/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 08/09/2026

Translated Chinese Literature: Hard Work We recommend five new books translated from Chinese, spanning workers’ literature and disaffected youth, all the way to alien landscapes, Tibet and Silicon Valley. Read Jack Hargreaves' latest column: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/08/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 02/09/2026

Listen or read along as we discuss food writing with Clarissa Wei, author of Sitting the Month and Made in Taiwan, on the China Books Podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/01/c...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 28/08/2026

Read Yi Liu's Q&A with the anthropologist Li Mingjie about Chinese folk belief: chinabooksreview.com/2026/08/27/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 27/08/2026

Li Mingjie on Chinese Folk Belief The academic and author walks us through Chinese folk religion today, from paper gods to ancestor worship, and explains how faith in China is fundamentally social. Read Yi Liu's Q&A, in our "What China's Thinking" column: chinabooksreview.com/2026/08/27/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 21/08/2026

Read Mark Leonard's essay on Chinese intellectual discussions of Pax Sinica: chinabooksreview.com/2026/08/20/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 20/08/2026

A New World Order? With Pax Americana crumbling, many countries in the Global South are turning to Pax Sinica as an alternative. So what are Chinese thinkers' vision for its place on the world stage? Read Mark Leonard's essay, excerpted from "The Idea of China" chinabooksreview.com/2026/08/20/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 14/08/2026

Read our latest New China Books column, featuring five picks from the editors: chinabooksreview.com/2026/08/13/n...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 05/08/2026

Listen to the podcast with Heather Salter on "The Shanghai Agents": buff.ly/AZNxNnC

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 04/08/2026

Spies in Shanghai with Heather Salter The author and historian discusses a dramatic Soviet espionage case in interwar Shanghai that rocked the international community and presaged the Cold War. Listen to the podcast: buff.ly/AZNxNnC

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 31/07/2026

Read Yi Liu's interview with the renowned filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai, the latest installment in the What China's Thinking column: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/30/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 30/07/2026

The pioneering filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai discusses the past and future of China’s film industry and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the market in this latest installment of the What China's Thinking column. Read Yi Liu's interview here: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/30/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 24/07/2026

Read the poet Zhang Er's cover essay on reading during the Cultural Revolution: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/23/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 23/07/2026

Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult. Read Zhang Er's cover essay now: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/23/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 20/07/2026

From our friends at NüVoices: Sign up now to the creative writing workshop "Turning Memories into Narratives" with M Lin, a Chinese writer and translator living in the U.S., author of the recent short story collection "The Memory Museum". Sunday, August 9, 10am ET, online. Register: buff.ly/biy2TeV

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 17/07/2026

Read Jeremiah Jenne's review of W. Somerset Maugham's On a Chinese Screen, our latest Archive Pick: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/16/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 16/07/2026

A century after it came out, Maugham's travelogue of his trip to China in 1919–20 reveals less about China itself, more about the foreigners who lived there. Read Jeremiah Jenne's latest Archive Pick now: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/16/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 03/07/2026

Watch the panel discussion on Hong Kong's past, present and future: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/02/h...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 02/07/2026

Six years after Hong Kong's National Security Law went into effect, we convened a panel of authors to discuss what has changed since. Watch the panel discussion, with Xu Xi, Mark Clifford, Anna Kwok and Simon Elegant: buff.ly/TDa5bq2

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 01/07/2026

We made a game! Test your China knowledge by seeing if you can match a book we reviewed with a quote we pulled from it — if you need a hint, read the reviews 😉 Play now: chinabooksreview.com/game/

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 26/06/2026

Read Brian Spivey's review-essay on In Search of Green China and the future of Chinese environmentalism: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/25/c...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 24/06/2026

Scroll through Na Zhong's five book picks for her latest "What China's Reading" column, from an LGBTQ short story collection to a reality-TV inspired novel:

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 23/06/2026

Writers tend to bristle at the adage, “Life is stranger than fiction.” In this latest “What China’s Reading” column, we share five Chinese-language titles that find a deeper truth through art. Read Na Zhong's latest column on Chinese-language reads: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/23/w...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 22/06/2026

Panel: Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future Join us exactly six years after the implementation of Hong Kong's National Security Law, for a panel discussion on how Hong Kong has changed. June 30, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC. Use code CBR15 for $10 off: asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 19/06/2026

Read Nicholas Bequelin's review of Autocracy 2.0 by Jennifer Lind: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/18/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 18/06/2026

A new book argues that China’s “smart authoritarianism” enabled innovation and economic growth while keeping draconian control over society and politics. But is it really possible for the two not to contradict? Read Nicholas Bequelin's review of Autocracy 2.0: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/18/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 17/06/2026

A selection of photos from the 2026 Baifang Schell Book Prize, rewarding outstanding books on or from China and the Sinophone world – organized by @chinabksreview, hosted by @asiasociety. Watch the video: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/16/c...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 16/06/2026

Awards Ceremony for the 2026 Winners Journalist Barbara Demick and translator Michael Berry talk about their winning books "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove" and "The Running Flame," at our prize ceremony. Watch the video, see the pics: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/16/c...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 15/06/2026

Our May bestsellers are out! Fantasy epic "The Poet Empress" by Shen Tao claims a second month in the top spot, followed by top five staples "Breakneck," "Killed to Order" and "Cod Red," as well as "Defending Taiwan." Read on for the full list of 15: chinabooksreview.com/bestselling-...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 12/06/2026

Read Liuyu Ivy Chen's review of two new books on China and the Mediterranean: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/11/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 10/06/2026

Watch Frank Dikötter talk about "Red Dawn Over China" in a CBR event at Asia Society: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/09/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 09/06/2026

Frank Dikötter on the Rise of the Party The historian talks about the early days of the Chinese Communist Party, and how they prevailed in 1949, in a China Books Review book talk at Asia Society. Watch the video of our book talk at Asia Society: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/09/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 08/06/2026

Panel: Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future June 30, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC. Register your seat now, use code CBR15 for $10 off as a China Books Review reader! asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 05/06/2026

Read Yangyang Cheng's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 04/06/2026

After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right? Read @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 03/06/2026

Listen to Simon Elegant talk about his new thriller set in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests, "City on Fire": chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/02/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 02/06/2026

Murder in Hong Kong with Simon Elegant The Hong Kong-born novelist and journalist talks us through his new novel "City on Fire," a whodunnit thriller set against the 2019 protests. Listen to the podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/02/p...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 01/06/2026

And we're back for June! LAST CHANCE to secure a spot for Frank Dikötter's talk at Asia Society New York. TOMORROW, Tuesday June 2, 6:30 - 8 p.m. $15 members/ $25 nonmembers TIX: asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 29/05/2026

Read Kevin Schoenmakers' review-essay on "workers' literature" in translation: chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...

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