This obituary was written by Tsu-Lin Mei, professor of Asian studies, emeritus, at Cornell University, and Andrew Plaks, professor of East Asian studies and comparative literature, emeritus, at ...

The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new effort to redefine the... Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One ...

Advances in large language models are driving breakthroughs in Chinese humanities research, spanning multi-agent Classical Chinese translation, historical climate reconstruction, AI-assisted ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. NANJING, China, July 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On July 21, the 7th International Sinologists Conference on ...

“China has changed so dramatically in the past three decades,” we wrote in our first column nearly a year ago, “that it is not just foreigners who stumble over stereotypes.” In that article we ...

LOS ANGELES — I’d be hard pressed to name a single contemporary Chinese literary writer. Yu Jie, who made headlines recently after leaving China in light of increased pressure and mistreatment from ...

Sinologist and junior professor Dr. Jessica Imbach from the University of Freiburg has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). With her funded project SINOFANTASY – ...

Renowned Hong Kong author Louis Cha, whose epic martial arts thrillers inspired numerous films and sold some 300 million copies worldwide, has died aged 94. Known by his pen name Jin Yong, Cha is a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – National Book Award winner Maxine Hong Kingston will speak April 20 at Purdue University's 74th Literary Awards celebration. A public reading by the Chinese-American memoirist ...

Sino-African relations have garnered a great deal of public interest in recent decades. Commentary tends to focus on trade, economic investment and aid and is often negative in tone. Based on ...

Western media frequently depicts China as a neocolonial power that seeks to import Africa’s natural resources at fire-sale prices, with precious little interest in the continent’s people or culture.