Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they’ve enjoyed in the summers of their lives.

Details Classification: Exempt, Temporary (3–4 year term, with full benefits), Fulltime, Hybrid (minimum 40% onsite) Location: Mountain View, CA Department: Collections & Exhibitions (Artifacts, Archi...

Also, the illusion of cheap Chinese AI. Good evening.

Join us to discuss the conditions for democracy and people’s participation in Thai society.

Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.

On May 27, at 2 pm PT, the Pacific Council invites you to dial in for a discussion of what lies ahead for the U.S-China relationship, following President Trump's trip to China, scheduled for May 14-15...

The Constitutional Court will rule on May 12 on whether Thailand’s decades‑old military conscription law violates constitutional rights, in a closely watched case involving activist Netiwit Chot...

Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.

One evening in the early 1960s, physicist Chen Ning Yang took a train from New York City to Long Island. An elderly Chinese man sat next to him and the two struck up a conversation. Born in the centra...

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different.

A conversation about the fragile fiber cables that power and connect our modern life

The activist known as Teacher Li on the dangerous work of cataloguing everyday life in China — and why he wants to change the CCP, not destroy it

The Constitutional Court will rule on May 12 on whether Thailand’s decades‑old military conscription law violates constitutional rights, in a closely watched case involving activist Netiwit Chot...

Reading Shakespeare, Orwell, and Twain in China Speakers: Jeffrey Wasserstrom & Nan Z. DaApril 30 6:00-7:30 pmShakespeare, Twain, and Orwell each gave us pictures of complete worlds, worlds in tur...

Find out who won our two $10,000 awards in the Baifang Schell Book Prize, for nonfiction and literature from or on China and the Sinophone world published in 2025.

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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “For Novice and Expert: Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Everything You Wanted to Know About China (But Were Afraid to Ask)” by Susan Blum…

An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift How do we push back in a world where...

茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Understanding China Beyond the Headlines: Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Everything You Wanted to Know About China” b…