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China

Book Review: “Building 46” — Much More than a Chinese Ghost Story

Author and journalist Massoud Hayoun’s novel Building 46 probes behind the air-brushed image of China’s capital city to offer a fascinating (and incisive) look into the everyday lives of Beijing dwellers.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Beijing, Building 46, China, Ghost story, Massoud Hayoun, Sarah Osman, sexuality

Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: China, Ilham Tohti, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Uyghur, Verso Books, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Book Review: “Thank You, Mr. Nixon” — East Meets West, Again and Again

The author of The Resisters returns with a timely collection of stories about the connections and contradictions linking America and China.

By: Jacqueline Houton Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: China, Gish Jen, Jacqueline Houton, Mr. Nixon, Thank You, Thank You Mr. Nixon

Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Faisal Z. Ahmed, In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century, Indonesia, Justin Grosslight, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sebastian Strangio, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Film Review: “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue” — Existing as a Writer in China Today

For those with sufficient patience and imagination — and are eager to learn more about the Chinese literary scene than what’s found in journalistic headlines — Jia Zhangke’s documentary will be an uncommon treat.

By: Maxwell Olin Massa Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: China, China writers, Jia Pingwa, Liang Hong, Ma Feng, Maxwell Olin Massa, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, Yu Hua

Film Review: “Do Not Split” — A Compelling, Disturbing, and Imperfect Look at the Hong Kong Riots

Is Do Not Split a fine example of provocative filmmaking? Yes. Should you watch it? Certainly. Will it help you understand the forces feeding the discontent and shaping the discourse generated by the conflict? Not really.

By: Maxwell Olin Massa Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Anders Hammer, China, Do Not Split, Hong Kong, Maxwell Olin Massa, repression

Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology

Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Review Tagged: Belt and Road, China, Globalism, Justin Grosslight, Singapore, The Future is Asian: Commerce Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century

Movie Review: “A Touch of Sin” — A Fearless Vision of Corruption in Contemporary China

In “A Touch of Sin,” four depressing stories float into one other, all said to be based on news stories from Chinese papers.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Touch of Sin, China, Jia Zhangke

Visual Arts Feature: Museums in the East, Part One

In the first few days of our first visit to China, I was nonetheless unable to keep myself from formulating a hypothesis. In China the distinction between art, artifice and artificiality is not drawn as sharply as it is, at least in principle, in the West.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: China, China museums, Schwartzlist

Short Fuse Film Review: Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei — The Anti-Mao

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei speaks for an alternate China, another possibility for it. In a sense, he is the anti-Mao. Alison Klayman’s “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” is an essential introduction to his work to date.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, artist, China, dissident, Short Fuse

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