Amid the current debate over our country’s treatment of immigrants and refugees, one question looms: what is humane? It’s an issue that begs examination as we’re confronted with the separation...
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Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) returns to MoMA PS1 September 21 – 23 with 365 artists, collectives, and publishers large and small from around the world. Most of us...
Sometimes an encounter with a book makes me imagine that I would have been a different person had I read it earlier. The Path is exactly this type of book. Written...
While Chinese filmmakers and artists often come to New York to talk about their works, writers from China usually don’t have the opportunity to. This makes Celebrated Voices of Contemporary...
A number of contemporary Singaporean writers and directors are challenging the official monolithic history of their city-state. Verena Tay’s storytelling performance Cursed Earth and Daniel Hui’s film Snakeskin are two examples of alternative narratives we...
China Institute joins New York Review of Books to celebrate the publication of Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton’s lively translation of K’ung Shang-jen’s (孔尚任)’s The Peach Blossom Fan 《桃花扇》. In his first...
This past weekend, Liu Cixin’s (刘慈欣) revered sci-fi novel The Three Body Problem 《三体》won the Hugo Award, a prestigious sci-fi and fantasy genre accolade, for Best Novel. First published in serial form in 2006 in Chinese...
I’ve lived in New York City for some time and have known it to be an impermanent place for the under-30 crowd. Yet, it had not occurred to me until...
This year, BookExpo America, the leading book and author event for the North American publishing industry, honors as its Global Market Forum Guest of Honor. In addition to hosting Chinese...
It failed to ring a bell, when a New York educator shared with me a Chinese proverb that said “Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I...