This is cool: Battered Leather Journal in Tibet
Battered Leather Journal in Tibet by stephenperisho | Make Your Own Book A very cool feature—an online "book" made possible by blurb.com that you can also order as a hard copy—put together by the...
View ArticleChina Underground revisited: New Zachary Mexico tale of life on the margins...
Zachary Mexico, author of China Underground, a series of reports from the margins of the new (and not-so-new) China, is holed up somewhere in upstate New York, hard at work on a new book. We're not...
View ArticleShanghai's Lu Xun Park: Seeking the soul of a nation
A line of spent cigarette butts droop ash onto the park floor outside of Lu Xun's Mausoleum. Four older men are sitting under the two massive magnolia trees that frame the mausoleum's facade, listening...
View ArticlePeter Hessler on Country Driving, revisiting River Town, and moving on
Less than a decade after his first book, River Town, was published, Peter Hessler's name has become shorthand for honest, insightful commentary on the charms and contradictions of contemporary China....
View ArticleCtripper: So you want to understand China...
Ctripper posts come to us directly from the good folks at Ctrip, China's top online travel services provider (and proud sponsor of ChinaTravel.net). Stay tuned for Ctrip special offers, travel tips,...
View ArticleCT.net Interview: Susan Conley on Beijing, surviving cancer & her book "The...
With the Olympics just around the corner, 2007 sees Susan Conley and family launch themselves into a new life in Beijing. Her memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune, tells the story of their incredible...
View ArticleBest of the Net Weekly: Our favorite China travel stories from around the web
We read a lot about travel over the course of one week and, after much sifting and sorting, we've rounded up a few of our favorites. From news and reviews to great blog posts, unusual destinations and...
View ArticleVoices: a sampling of contemporary Chinese fiction
Our writing contest, My Chengdu Story, is trucking along (the submission period ends 8 June 2012), with a handful of entries making their way to our submission pages in the last few days (see fiction,...
View ArticleThe best China travel stories from around the net
We read a lot about travel over the course of one week and, after much sifting and sorting, we've rounded up a few of our favorites. From news and reviews to great blog posts, unusual destinations and...
View ArticleIn the footsteps of Lu Xun: visiting Shanghai's Lu Xun Museum
"You can change! In your hearts!" wrote Lu Xun (Lǔ Xùn, 鲁迅) in the short story "Diary of a Madman." "Soon there will be no place for cannibals in the world of ours. And if you don't change, you will...
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