Ken Liu’s first published story appeared in 2002, and over the next eight years only five additional stories appeared.   A fire lit b...

One of the four great novels of Chinese classical literature, Journey to the West is also one of the greatest fantasy novels the wor...

There are four “novels” in the Chinese canon that are considered the greatest of all time.   Even the devastating Cultural Revolution...

Having one of the earliest recorded in the world, China’s history becomes even more interesting when one learns it is unbroken.   From th...

There are innumerable collections of Chinese poetry.   Some are collected by poet, e.g. Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi , Tao Yuanming, and the oth...

Having lived in China for four years, I can personally vouch for Peter Hessler’s memoirs in River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze .   It’...

There is a famous communist image of a young Mao Zedong wearing a “flat cap” featuring a red star on its front.   As legend has it, t...

Jiang Rong was a government researcher sent to live in Inner Mongolia (a portion of Mongolia belonging to China) in the time of communism...

Lin Yutang was not to know the adjective he chose to describe the most brilliant Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty would evolve in the ...

Imagine walking down an empty city sidewalk when you spot someone walking in your direction.  As they head directly toward you, what do ...

Heaven, Earth, and Man in The Book of Changes is a collection of papers delivered by Hellmut Willhel...

This is the river city of Chongqing, the only city in China I visited that wasn’t flat as a board, and the starting point of my Yangtze ...

These two sets of photos upcoming are taken from the month I spent traveling around China after my teaching contract was finished in 2005...