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After 14 years of war in Syria, Damascus fell to the rebels in December 2024. Fighting with them was a small but critical cohort of Uyghurs, who had fled China and joined the battle. But once the war was won, could they find a home so far from their homeland?View quoted post on X
Read an excerpt from Emily Feng's new book "Our Hearts Burned for Home": chinabooksreview.com/2026/10/08/uyg…
A Qing dynasty failson’s memoir of genteel poverty, parties and potting soil was rediscovered in a Suzhou book stall in 1874 and remains one of China’s favorite love stories.View quoted post on X
Read Jeremiah Jenne on Shen Fu's "Six Records of a Floating Life," his latest pick in The China Archive column: chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/29/she…
In 1991, a CBS investigation into China’s reform-through-labor camps shocked the world, exposing how prison-made goods were being exported to the U.S. Three decades later, camps like it still exist.View quoted post on X
Read the excerpt from Orville Schell's new book "Inside China's Secret Prisons": chinabooksreview.com/2026/09/24/ins…
