Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in Guangzhou approached a number of local activists and other politically sensitive figures, ordering them to leave the city for six months until after Fortune magazine’s Fortune Global Forum in early...
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han published his first essay while still in junior high school in 2000. After dropping out of high school,...
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Democracy activist and writer Yang Tongyan, also known by the pen-name Yang Tianshui, died at age...
Radio Free Asia reports that writer, historian, and frequent critic of China’s ethnic...
While Xi Jinping has made stating his appreciation for literature—both foreign and domestic—a...
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
The who’s who of the U.S. publishing industry are gathering today in New York for the...
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
Recounting the experience of publishing his books in China, Peter Hessler describes shifts in...
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports criticism of the “fake” Mongolian...
When Chinese novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, controversy erupted—while...
Goodreads interviews author Yu Hua about his new novel The Seventh Day: A Novel, his childhood...
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese...
Writer Yan Lianke was just awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic. At the awards...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
As protesters in Hong Kong passed China’s 65th National Day on the streets, Chinese state...
NPR has published a review of Xiaolu Guo’s newly released novel I Am China: In an...
In Aeon Magazine, writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo ruminates on her generation’s political...
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