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Last Updated: June 27, 2016

Julia Lovell Recommends Five Books on the Opium War

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The Opium War, understood as the start of an unprecedented crisis inflicted on China by foreigners, is a key source of political legitimacy for China’s contemporary ruling party. The official Communist historiographical narrative of the Opium War...

Ma Jian Recommends Five Books on Chinese Dissident Literature

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I realised that the history of Chinese literature has often been shaped from outside of its society—by exiled writers and thinkers. From [3rd century BC Chinese poet] Qu Yuan to Confucius, the Tang dynasty to the Qing dynasty, right up to modern...

FiveBooks Interviews: Orville Schell on China and the US

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The changing relationship between China and America will be one of the defining foreign policy issues of our times. To understand its dynamic, says Schell, we must take account of China's lingering sense of victimhood.