Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts” chronicles how China’s history shaped her family. But first, she had to tackle some basics. “My grandmother’s memoir was this locked box,” Tessa Hulls said.

The central character of New York Times correspondent Ed Wong's memoir, At the Edge of Empire, is not Wong himself — it's his father, who studied in Beijing in the 1950s and staunchly supported the ...

A state-aligned association in China has banned a book on the early history of the Mongols, allegedly for not adhering to the narratives and policies propagated by the communist regime, which experts ...

Journal of Humanities, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2022), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are the main characteristics of Chinese traditional thoughts and philosophies. However, The Book of ...

In unprecedented times, much can be gleaned from the books we read. After the 2016 election, Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” went out of stock on Amazon as Americans tried to place ...

One of the first things Xi Jinping did after being named general secretary of China's ruling Communist Party was tour an exhibition at the National Museum on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square. It ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deirdre Mask KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu One ...