Lao She’s greatest work, ‘Rickshaw Boy’
Vivid descriptions of Republican-era Beijing meld with a timeless story about the vicissitudes of a worker's life.
View ArticleThe rising and falling fortunes of golf in China
In the early 2000s, golf’s popularity soared in China, embraced by even the country’s highest leaders. During this boom, Dan Washburn wrote "The Forbidden Game," which is as much about the momentous...
View ArticleWhen Yao Ming was the most famous Chinese person on Earth
In the early 2000s, the 7-foot-6 Houston Rockets center was an NBA All-Star and multimillionaire, and the face of China in the U.S. But where did he come from? How did he rise to such prominence,...
View ArticleWhat’s the problem with Chinese soccer? Rowan Simons knows.
Rowan Simons became a household name among Chinese soccer fans for his TV commentary on English football. His efforts to promote grassroots soccer within China proved much more difficult.
View ArticleThe lessons to be learned from Edgar Snow’s ‘Red Star Over China’
"Red Star Over China" was a massive coup for the young American journalist Edgar Snow. The book is still a gripping read, but it is also an abject lesson in the pitfalls of access in China.
View ArticleA Chinese foreign correspondent in Europe during World War II
From war in London to persecution in China, Xiao Qian experienced it all — and wrote about it in his classic memoir, Traveller Without a Map.
View Article‘Thunder Out of China’: One of the most popular WWII books of all time
Annalee Jacoby and Teddy White were in their early twenties — yet already accomplished war correspondents — when they arrived in Chongqing. Their reportage from China's wartime capital was immediately...
View ArticleEvery Ultimate China Bookshelf needs Peter Hessler’s ‘River Town’
"River Town," since its publication in 2001, has been much imitated but rarely bettered. It is a classic in the memoir genre, about life in a rural town that was changing, inalterably, for better or...
View ArticleAll the traditions lost after the Communists entered Beijing
"Houses and people and tables and chairs move and change of themselves, following destinies that cannot be altered. When things change into other things or lose themselves or destroy themselves, there...
View ArticleA hedonistic portrait of Old Beijing
British scholar John Blofeld arrived in Beijing in 1934, in his early twenties, seeking aesthetic and sensual pleasures. Nearly three decades later, he wrote "City of Lingering Splendour," recounting...
View ArticleMichael Yahuda’s ‘Hong Kong’ is one of the few good books about the 1997...
A clear-eyed assessment of the run-up to the Hong Kong handover from Britain to the People's Republic of China.
View ArticleWhen the British lost Hong Kong to the Japanese
Philip Snow's "The Fall of Hong Kong" is the definitive account of the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong starting on Christmas Day 1941, all the way through the Imperial Army's departure...
View ArticleA portrait of Hong Kong in the waning years of British rule
"And if they fail, and the people of Hong Kong remain to the end powerless to govern their own affairs, vulnerable to anything that may come out of China? Then the British will leave behind them, if...
View ArticleSanmao went against the stereotypes of her time
The original Chinese-language edition of Sanmao’s "Stories of the Sahara" was incredibly popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and throughout China, with the author representing a very different type of...
View ArticleExiled writer Chiang Yee, through war and loneliness, lived quite the life
Born in Jiujiang, Chiang Yee found himself in England in 1933, where he became an exile after war broke out back home. He became a "silent traveler," and wrote books beloved in his adopted land.
View ArticleWhat the U.S. looked like to an early 20th-century Chinese diplomat
"Of all nations in the world, America is the most interesting to the Chinese…It is certainly a most extraordinary country. The people are wonderful and are most interesting and instructive to the...
View ArticleJeep in China: A failed joint venture at least makes for a fun read
"Later, American Motors officials would admit that the Las Vegas meeting had been a disaster. If there was anything they had learned about China, they said, it was this: Don’t take the Chinese to Las...
View ArticleHow does one lose a fortune in China? ‘Mr. China’ knows
Tim Clissold's memoir about losing millions would be tragic if it weren't so funny — we laugh, we cry, and we root for the main characters, even though we know they failed.
View ArticleThe told story of Wham! in China
Simon Napier-Bell was a composer, songwriter, record producer, and author living a hedonistic life in London. Bored, he decided to try the ultimate adventure: making Wham! the first Western pop group...
View ArticleThe bloodiest civil war ever: The Qing vs. the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
"Death in those days came not just from the rain of cannons and muskets, the explosions, or the hatchets and spears. It came not just from the infection and the butchery or from the suicides. It came...
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