Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen
Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator
Lin Yutang’s biography of Su Dongpo presents a supernaturally complex portrait of the poet
Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator
With Big Beer looming, is China’s nascent craft-brewing scene facing its biggest threat yet?
Somerset Maugham’s vignettes on colonial life still offer illuminating insights a century on
A close look at Pu Songling’s immortal short stories
A film about love, based on a novel by best-selling writer Zhang Jiajia
How Han Han’s 1988 fails to deliver
A curious look at the cult of the China watcher
The rich man's game in the PRC
Inside the mind of Mai Jia’s "Decoded"
A look at musings from Arthur Henderson Smith’s Chinese Characteristics
Gritty crime film based on the novel from Chinese crime journalist Xu Yigua
Eileen Chang tells immortal stories of desire and danger in Lust, Caution
Visually stunning movie, but lacking in other departments
Unsettling fictions scratch beneath a China in the not so distant past