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Booklist: An American Bum in China
Matthew Evans’s misguided travels are rife with schadenfreude
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Booklist: The Debt Collector
Zhejiang writer Wang Shou tackles confused morality and socioeconomic divides in this new Penguin novella
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Genius Loci
Lin Yutang’s biography of Su Dongpo presents a supernaturally complex portrait of the poet
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Booklist: The Transpacific Experiment
Matt Sheehan raises more questions than answers for “how China and California compete for our future”
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Number One Love
A Chinese eatery is a prism for intergenerational love and loss in Lillian Li’s stirring fictional debut
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Flight of Fantasy
Fantasy series’ last-minute disappearance was the latest high-profile “postponement” in Chinese entertainment
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Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen
Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator
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Interpreting ‘The Deer Park’
An analysis of 19 translations of Wang Wei’s classic poems has just been translated—back into Chinese
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Jackie Chan’s Book Flub
Action star’s new tell-all memoir admits to many mistakes, but not everything
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Whistling ‘Dixie’
Historians are still uncovering a doomed American wartime mission to meet Maoist rebels and broker an alliance
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