Asia Society Associate Fellow Jeffrey Wasserstrom has a review of Chinese author Yu Hua's latest work China in Ten Words for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Part memoir and part modern history, China ...

Reporting from Beijing — “There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can’t say on television…. They must be really bad.” In 1972, comedian George Carlin ...

Intrigued by what they perceived as the homogeneity of Chinese restaurant names, a pair of reporters for the Washington Post’s Wonkblog decided to analyze the names of nearly every Chinese eating ...

Since the announcement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that the President of China would no longer be limited to two five-year terms in office on Sunday (February 25), as had been the case since ...