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That the shadow of Cultural Revolution should darken such a land must surely rank as the ultimate indictment of our day and age.

In “Sparks,” the journalist Ian Johnson chronicles the methods and motivations of the activists trying to preserve a record of the atrocities of the past.

Though none of his works have been publicly shown in China, Hu Jie is one of his country’s most noteworthy filmmakers.

On October 11 Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 will go to the fifty-seven-year-old Chinese writer Guan Moye, better known as Mo Yan, a pen name that means “don’t talk.” (The name is said to have originated in advice his parents gave him as a school-age boy during the Mao era.)The news

Blood Letters is an important new biography of Lin Zhao, the journalist who was executed 50 years ago this spring for criticizing the Communist Party’s misrule in the 1950s and 1960s. After years of imprisonment, torture, and mental deterioration, she was hauled out of the prison hospital where she had shriveled to 70 pounds, taken to a thousand-seat prison auditorium in her