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05/16/2022

 Megan Walsh’s The Subplot

Reviewing the state of contemporary Chinese literature

by Jeremy Ray Jewell

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01/27/2022

My Scene’s Mise-en-Scene

Life through a cinematic lens

by Michael Riordan

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02/11/2021

Black Holes in the Time of Coronavirus

It's a big small world

by Daniel Hudon

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06/19/2017

Exchanging Notes

On university teaching (and learning) in China

by Denise Agosto

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04/20/2016

Bottles & Me

by Lucille Bellucci

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05/12/2015

Struggling Through

In Eileen Chang's Naked Earth, holding on to reality in Maoist China means living in the details.

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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01/18/2011

A Capital Museum!

(But getting there is none of the fun.)

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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10/05/2010

Phantom of the Fair

A dispatch from the Shanghai World Expo.

by Scott Gabriel Knowles

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05/12/2010

A Woman of a Certain Age

And like most, as mysterious as ever.

by Morgan Meis

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10/30/2008

Chinese Take-Out

Reflections on two weeks spent touring the new America.

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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