January 5, 2012 4:19 PM
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On Vogel & Kissinger’s “Sino-Americana”
Science fiction author William Gibson has frequently argued that “novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written“; that the real subject matter of ’1984′ was 1948. In the London Review of Books, Perry Anderson reviews three examples of what he calls “Sino-Americana”, a sub-genre whose ostensible focus is China, but whichFebruary 4, 2012 12:12 AM
Behind The Rise of the Great Powers
A new book of translated essays by imprisoned writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has just been released. From
Rana Mitter on 100 Years of Modern China
For the latest installment of its Five Books series, The Browser interviews Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics
December 13, 2011 11:52 PM
Cultural Lexicon
The Wall Street Journal reviews the newly translated book by Yu Hua, China in Ten Words:The book’s 10 chapters present
December 8, 2011 3:21 PM
- Recreating the Horrors of Nanjing
- Fang Lizhi: The Real Deng
- The Skeletons in Deng's Closet
- China’s Big Lie: Review of Such Is This...
- Book Review: Such Is This World@sars.come
- Jonathan Spence: Kissinger and China
- Red Tide
- New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China
- Five Books: Evan Osnos on China
- Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Throwing the Book at Chi...
- James Seymour: Ghost Song
- New Book on Chinese Media
- Staying Power: Mao and the Maoists
- I Read Han Han’s “Party (独唱团)R...
- Richard Baum: Obstacles to Political Reform i...
- Straw Into Gold
- Feast and Famine
- For a Chinese-American Writer, Split Images o...
