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Illiberal China

Lin Song reviews Daniel F. Vukovich’s interdisciplinary account of the PRC’s illiberal political culture.

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature

Tom Marling reviews a collection of animal fables that adds an elegant new dimension to the anglophone understanding of the Chinese literary tradition.

Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box

May Huang reviews a new collection of poems from Hong Kong.

Found in Transition

Ka-Lee Wong reviews an assessment of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

The Last Boat Out of Shanghai

Matthew Wu reviews a novel crafted from the personal stories of those who fled mainland China as a consequence of WWII and the Chinese Civil War.

The World in Guangzhou

Emily Chow reviews Gordon Mathews’s ethnographic portrait of the lives of sub-Saharan Africans in Guangzhou.

Hong Kong on the Brink

Chris Maden reviews Syd Goldsmith’s memoir of his life in Hong Kong around the years of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.

In the Land of Pagodas

Juan Zhong reviews the travelogue of a Frenchman’s journey around China at the turn of the century.

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