Xianyu, one of China's largest second-hand goods trading platforms, is becoming an online hub for young people exploring ...

In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.

If you speak multiple languages, you've probably had the experience of thinking or dreaming in a language that's not your native tongue. I learned some French in high school, and I'll occasionally ...

When Mao Tse-Tung (as we spelled it then) launched his Cultural Revolution in 1966, Chen and her expatriate Chinese husband, ...

Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us ...

On Belgian-Australian writer Simon Leys and his books on China. Plus Maoism: suicide and madness.

On a research trip to Taiwan, writer Kat Chen studies late Taiwanese memoirist Sanmao and gains a new understanding of her ...

Welcome back to Techne! I’m a big fan of The Public Domain Review, an online journal focusing on works of art and literature now in the public domain. Hugh Aldersey-Williams, a writer and curator, ...

The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

China has no tradition of women's literature', Frances Wood says in her introduction to this book of Twentieth Century stories by Chinese women writers. But there is no shortage of stories about women ...

But time marches on! So here are a few books out soon (or now!) that are piquing our interest. In this tale, a middling literary writer dips her toes into the world of sci-fi, and writes a hit book ...