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The Middle Kingdom and the Middle Sea have had contact for millennia. Two books explore how China has viewed the Mediterranean, and the state of the relationship today.
Read Liuyu Ivy Chen's review of two new books that explore China and the Mediterranean:
Watch Frank Dikötter talk about "Red Dawn Over China" in a CBR event at Asia Society: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/09/t...
Frank Dikötter on the Rise of the Party
The historian talks about the early days of the Chinese Communist Party, and how they prevailed in 1949, in a China Books Review book talk at Asia Society.
Watch the video of our book talk at Asia Society: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/09/t...
Panel: Hong Kong’s Past, Present and Future
June 30, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC. Register your seat now, use code CBR15 for $10 off as a China Books Review reader! asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...
Murder in Hong Kong with Simon Elegant
The Hong Kong-born novelist and journalist talks us through his new novel "City on Fire," a whodunnit thriller set against the 2019 protests.
Listen to the podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/02/p...
Listen to Simon Elegant talk about his new thriller set in Hong Kong during the 2019 protests, "City on Fire": chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/02/p...
And we're back for June!
LAST CHANCE to secure a spot for Frank Dikötter's talk at Asia Society New York.
TOMORROW, Tuesday June 2, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
$15 members/ $25 nonmembers
TIX: asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...
Read Kevin Schoenmakers' review-essay on "workers' literature" in translation: chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...
Read Yangyang Cheng's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...
After 37 years, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown of 1989 have been preserved in novels as much as in memory. But does the Anglophone literary imagination get it right?
Read @yangyangcheng.bsky.social's review-essay on Tiananmen in fiction: chinabooksreview.com/2026/06/04/t...
