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Setting the Score

A touring production about a “good Nazi” raises the profile of Mandarin-language opera overseas

By Emily Conrad December 13, 2019

HISTORY

Pocket Pals

A 1943 US guide to China offers tantalizing glimpses of a wartime alliance

By Han Rubo June 4, 2019

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The Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival are key scenes of drama in China’s Four Classic Novels, providing clues of how people celebrated holidays in ancient China

The Sun Rises: New Novel Gives Genderfluid Take on the Ming Dynasty

Asian-Australian author Shelley Parker-Chan’s “She Who Became the Sun” may not be historically accurate, but that’s not the main reason to read it

The British Spy Who Cracked the Secret to Chinese Tea

How a 19th-century act of “corporate espionage” changed world history

The Blast that Nearly Destroyed Beijing

The Wanggongchang Explosion continues to mystify historians almost 400 years later

Spring Days Past | Short Story

In Shen Shuzhi’s depiction of waning village life, a “left-behind” child comes to terms with loneliness growing up with his grandmother

Epidemic

As a mysterious illness ravages the population, one youngster goes on a journey in search of the terrible truth