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Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance

Kevin Wang Explores How Translating Terao Tetsuya’s “Spent Bullets” Helped Him Understand the Legacy of Taiwan

By Kevin Wang | October 15, 2025

Inside China’s New Wave of Conceptually Innovative Bookstores

Inside China’s New Wave of Conceptually Innovative Bookstores

Jean-Yves Mollier and Patricia Sorel Explore Some of the Country’s Most Fascinating Reading Spaces

By Jean-Yves Mollier and Patricia Sorel | October 2, 2025

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

Ha Jin on the Transcendent and Universal Power of Artistic Practice

“In literature I have found a landscape or galaxy that is vaster and more enduring than a country or a state.”

By Ha Jin | July 28, 2025

Tyranny as Tragedy: On <em>King Lear</em>, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality

By Nan Z. Da | June 10, 2025

The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

The Woman With the Axe: On Fu Hao, Ancient China’s Warrior Queen

Rachel McCarthy James Examines Gender, Power and Violence in the Shang Dynasty

By Rachel McCarthy James | May 15, 2025

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh Ponders Citrus in Art and Life

By Katie Goh | May 7, 2025

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Paul French Chronicles the Future Duchess of Windsor’s Sojourn in China

By Paul French | November 13, 2024

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s <em>Waiting</em> and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Timeless and Urgent: On Ha Jin’s Waiting and the Mercy of the Arbitrary

Rachel Khong: “We can’t help but wonder about the arbitrary demands and strictures placed on these individuals: What was it all for?”

By Rachel Khong | September 10, 2024

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Paper Trail: On the Cross-Cultural Evolution of the Notebook

Roland Allen Explores the Millennia-Long History of Jotting Things Down

By Roland Allen | September 9, 2024

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

“To rise above oppression is the glory of man; to submit is his shame.”

By Kim San | September 5, 2024

Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

Our “Long-Living Badasses.” Why So Much Asian American Fiction Focuses on Grandparents

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier on America's Youth-Obsessed Culture

By Soma Mei Sheng Frazier | July 31, 2024

In Praise of <em> Ginkgo Biloba</em>, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

In Praise of Ginkgo Biloba, China’s Ancient, Everlasting Tree

Amy Stewart Talks to Jianming (Jimmy) Shen, the Ginkgo Chronicler of Hangzhou

By Amy Stewart | July 17, 2024

Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

Inside COVID’s Ground Zero: Wuhan, China Before and After Mass Catastrophe

Peter Hessler Remembers the Pandemic In the Place Where It All Began

By Peter Hessler | July 11, 2024

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