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Booklist: A Song for China
A beautifully illustrated book for young readers tackles China’s complicated modern history
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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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Booklist: The Transpacific Experiment
Matt Sheehan raises more questions than answers for “how China and California compete for our future”
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Lightning Round
In a tale of obsession and invention, Liu Cixin’s latest translated novel puts a new face on the sci-fi master
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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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The Drug War
In “Imperial Twilight,” historian Stephen Platt shows how flawed decisions led to full-blown conflict between two mighty trading partners
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All the Single Ladies
The publication of Roseanne Lake’s “Leftover in China” was greeted with controversy over attribution, but how well does the book address its topic?
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5 Must-Read Memoirs About China
From the last emperor’s autobiography to the reminisces of Lang Lang and Mao’s bodyguard, here are some of TWOC’s favorite memoirs
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Kids Today
Who will shape China’s youth narrative—millennials, or the Westerners who can’t stop writing about them?
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