The China Books Podcast is a monthly interview series on all things China and bookish, from ChinaBooksReview.com. Hosted by Alec Ash, we talk to authors about their recent works on or from China and the Sinophone world, from politics and history to fiction and culture. Subscribe to stay in the loop, and drop us a rating if you enjoyed it! China Books Review is a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China.
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Islam has been part of China’s religious and cultural fabric for over a millennium, yet often it is seen as a foreign element. The author of a new study explains just how wrong that is. The China Book...
Chinese Horror with Xueting C. Ni (00:30:14)
Horror writing has an unsavory reputation in China, but comes with a long history and is full of biting social commentary. The translator of a recent collection explains what lurks beneath. The China ...
Ep. 27: Sex, Scams and Sorcery with Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea (00:38:31)
Tales of trickery were popular in the late Ming dynasty. The translators of a new collection explain how they still resonate today. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a proj...
Ep. 26: Chris Horton on Taiwan’s History and Present (00:43:33)
Colonized by the Dutch, Qing China and Japan, the island of Taiwan has a complicated past and a tense present. We invited the author of a new primer to lay it out for us. The China Books Podcast is a ...
Ep. 25: Timothy Thurston on Tibetan Satire (00:34:55)
Tibetans inside China have found various ways to push back against Beijing and voice their dissatisfaction. A lesser-known form of subtle resistance is the art of “zurza,” or satirical repartee. The C...
Ep. 24: China Conspiracy Theories (00:31:18)
From Covid as a bioweapon to Chinese soldiers infiltrating America, Alexander Boyd discusses the right-wing conspiracy theories that lead our ranking of bestselling China books. The China Books Podcas...
Ep. 23: Mark Kitto on Shanghai in the 2000s (00:30:22)
The author and former media mogul explains why he chose fiction as the best way to capture Shanghai’s go-go years in his new novel. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a proj...
Ep. 22: Michael Luo on the Chinese-American Story (00:37:25)
The New Yorker writer discusses his new history of the Chinese in America, and immigrant identity from the Chinese Exclusion Act to Trump. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review,...
Ep. 21: Jenna Tang on Taiwan’s MeToo Movement (00:30:11)
We talked to the translator of a novel that helped launch #MeToo in Taiwan, about why both the movement and the book are having a second wind. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Rev...
Ep. 20: Linda Jaivin on the Cultural Revolution (00:42:01)
The writer and China watcher talks us through her microhistory of Mao’s last decade in power, and its relevance to Trump’s MAGA movement. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, ...
Ep. 19: Steven Schwankert on the Titanic's Chinese Survivors (00:38:29)
The author of "The Six" tells us about the Chinese survivors of the Titanic, and how they were met with racist scorn on arrival in America after the disaster. The China Books Podcast is a companion of...
Ep. 18: Lijia Zhang on Women’s Stories (00:39:06)
The memoirist and novelist talks us through her grandmother and mother’s stories, as well as her own, and discusses how the status of women has changed in China through the decades. The China Books Po...
Ep. 17: Lau Yee-Wa on Hong Kong Fiction (00:35:12)
We talked to the author of "Tongueless" about how Cantonese is disappearing from Hong Kong schools, and what literature can do to raise awareness. Our guest this month is Lau Yee-Wa, one of Hong Kong'...
Ep. 16: Oriana Skylar Mastro on China’s Challenge to the U.S. (00:44:29)
As 2025 gets into gear, all eyes are on the year ahead, with a degree of trepidation (or excitement, depending on whom you ask) for the early impacts of the incoming Trump administration on U.S.-China...
Ep. 15: Paul French on Wallis Simpson's China Year (00:36:30)
The American socialite Wallis Simpson is best known as the wife of former British king Edward VIII. When they announced their intention to marry, her status as a divorcée (and an American) caused a co...
Ep. 14: Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Century (00:36:18)
In this episode, we’re pleased to have had the opportunity to talk to Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean former diplomat who was Singapore’s representative to the UN in the 1980s and 1990s, and later De...
Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers' (00:45:06)
Our guest this month is renowned writer Peter Hessler, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of five books about China, most recently Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, published earlier this ye...
Ep. 12: China's evolving art scene (00:59:16)
China’s edgy contemporary art exploded into global view over decades of China’s meteoric economic growth. Gone were the days of Mao Zedong insisting that art had to “serve the people", by which he mea...
Ep. 11: Beijing in Short Fiction (00:40:34)
Beijing is many things to many people, sometimes all at once – a mecca for migrants and artists, a tech hub, a proving ground for young graduates, a capital of politics and power, a smoggy, traffic-ch...
Ep. 10: Rethinking U.S.-China trade (00:55:11)
Who are the winners and losers in U.S.-China trade over recent decades, and what's a better way forward? Laying out a compelling argument in this episode is Peter Goodman, a former correspondent in Ch...
Ep. 9: Tiananmen remembered (00:59:57)
Tiananmen -- the place, the protests, the crackdown -- reverberates in memories and imaginations around the world, even 35 years after tanks rolled in Beijing’s streets, and the Chinese military’s cra...
Ep. 8: Uyghur Women Speaking Out (00:51:14)
Genocide is not a word thrown around lightly by the U.S. government, but it uses that term to describe the Chinese government’s ongoing assaults on Uyghurs’ distinct culture, identity, rights, and fre...
Ep. 7: Why China's ahead in the green energy 'gold rush' (00:49:08)
China has bet big over the past couple of decades on how building up its renewable energy sector -- solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and their batteries, and the metals and minerals that...
Ep. 6: Spy novels, a real-life thriller, and the BBC (00:56:05)
Acclaimed spy novelist Adam Brookes started out in China as a languge student in the mid-'80s, skipping class to travel in trucks and buses to Tibet and other parts of China that had just opened up af...
The sizzle has come off of China's decades of economic growth, as the country contends with deflation, slumping consumer confidence, plummeting foreign investment, a cratered urban property sector, hi...
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