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Beijing Sprawl is a wonderfully engaging set of linked stories of young village men trying their luck in the endless back streets of Beijing’s urban expanse. They spend nights posting advertisements for a business that creates fake IDs and counterfeit documents. During the day…

Sparks, by Ian Johnson, a valuable read A compelling book by Ian Johnson, Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future, connects to An Wei, the central character of my book, One in a Billion: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey through Modern-Day...

China’s Age of Malaise by Evan Osnos Preoccupied by the Israeli-Palestinian war, the media is covering little on China except tension-producing rhetoric about such situations as Taiwan. But there is much more to know. Evan Osnos, who has lived in China and continues...

The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese School In a recent New Yorker article, Peter Hessler probes his twins’ experience attending elementary school in China compared with their schooling in the United States, all compared with their Chinese great-grandfather’s...

Seemingly contradictory to Xi Jinping’s rhetoric that constantly builds tension between China and the West, China’s consul general in Los Angeles has published this newsletter seeking friendship and exchanges with the United States. Such statements are approved by...

A remarkable event occurred this year when Adam Foster received a personal letter from the president of China, Xi Jinping. As chair of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation in Utah and great-nephew of Helen Snow, Adam had written Xi emphasizing the importance of creating...