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Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The desire not to dwell on that tumultuous decade, after half a century has passed, is understandable, but the failure to reflect on its impact, offer a full and factual account of how and why it occurred, and take steps to ensure that the nation—especially its youth—have truly absorbed
At the annual meeting of BookExpo America that was held in New York last May, to which most leading U.S. publishers sent representatives, state-sponsored Chinese publishers were named “guests of honor.” Commercially speaking, this made sense. China’s book industry, with sales now reported at $8 billion annually, is the second-largest in the world.1But for U.S. publishers there
Liu Binyan, the distinguished Chinese journalist and writer who died of cancer on December 5, 2005, in exile in New Jersey, at the age of eighty, was an inveterate defender of the poor and the oppressed, a man with a powerful analytic mind. But the trait that most determined his course through life was his bent for speaking out combined with his utter inability to say anything
Faced with rising infections and new variants of COVID-19, universities across the United States were once again blocked in their search to return to normal,
November seems to represent a month of writers. Ever since the 17th century, this month has seen the birth of great authors, including Voltaire and Schiller, Mark Twain and Ivan Turgenev, and also Ba Jin and Qian Zhongshu.