Chairman Mao
The thoughts of Chairman Xi – in digestible form
Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung helpfully cut through the jargon of interminable speeches and publications, and the totalitarian vision they expose is not reassuring
Xi Jinping is acting like Stalin
The General Secretary of China’s Communist Party is a different kind of leader. Now in his third five-year term, Xi…
The man behind Xi Jinping
At the height of the Cultural Revolution, over a billion copies of Mao’s Little Red Book were distributed across the…
One great Chinese puzzle remains its cuisine
A truth that ought to be universally acknowledged is that Chinese food, while much loved, is underappreciated. China certainly has…
Chilli con carnage: the red hot pepper and communism
These days it is as hard to imagine Sichuanese food without chillies as it is to imagine Italian food without…
When kissing in public carried a death sentence
I once threw Tony Parker’s Lighthouse across the fo’c’sle of a ship at sea when I read that his characters…
Enduring life under Chairman Mao
Rao Pingru is 94, and a born storyteller. His gripping graphic narrative weaves in and out of the violent, disruptive…
Chairman Mao devours his foes
Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and winner of the Samuel Johnson prize in 2011,…
The perils of porcelain – and the pleasures of Edmund de Waal
A.S. Byatt on the dark, deadly secrets lurking beneath a calm, white surface
