Center on U.S.-China Relations

03/07/2024

Netizens on the Chinese internet have been using buzzwords and memes for decades, to express obliquely what they cannot directly. From the “river crab” to the “last generation,” they show how online sentiment and protest has evolved since the early 2000s.

03/07/2024

Coal-powered plants fired China’s explosive growth. But their emissions contributed to the melting of its Himalayan ice. To tell the story of this impact on our shared climate, a picture speaks a billion words.

01/25/2024

Some analysts are performing an autopsy on the Chinese economy. Others say it has never had more potential for growth. Who will win in this cage fight of the economists?

01/18/2024

China’s first paramount leader since Mao is, for all the ink spilled on him, a black box. But behind the speculation over his intent, Xi is a Party man at heart — and therein lies the danger.

12/14/2023

China Books Review's "Best of 2023" list is out today. Read our round-up of recommended titles (and one anti-recommendation) from the past year, selected by our editors and various guests.

Our round-up of recommended titles (and one anti-recommendation) from the past year, selected by our editors and various guests.

12/11/2023

Asia Society Policy Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group cohosted the first annual Cure4Cancer conference on Friday, December 1, 2023.

11/08/2023

Foreign correspondents have been instrumental in telling the story of how China has changed since World War II. So, we turned the microphone on them

11/07/2023

This page lists all recent China books, defined broadly as any English-language book on or from China that was published by a reputable house in the last year. We update this list every other Thursday. We aim to be comprehensive, but if we have missed a book, please contact us with the publisher lin...

11/02/2023

Murong Xuecun, formerly one of the last dissident writers left in China, is now living in exile. How does a novelist get to the point where he is one step from arrest?

10/27/2023

Join MIT Sloan School of Management's Yasheng Huang to discuss how China's history of exams, autocracy, stability, and technological innovation have shaped its history and inform the country's present and future.

10/10/2023

When China opened up in the 1980s, how did fiction writers respond to their new-found — but fragile — freedoms of expression? The China Books podcast finds out