China Channel
The LARB has a new China blog which has lots of good content by people who really know their stuff. I wrote something for a roundtable discussion on Han Song’s story ‘Finished’, a Kafka-esque story about migrant workers.
Prospect piece
I wrote a piece for Prospect magazine about wealth inequality in China. It offers brief portraits of several people in my new book, Chasing the Chinese Dream.
Katalin Street
I wrote a piece for 3 a.m. magazine about Magda Szabó.
CUP and ‘Academic Freedom’
I wrote about Cambridge University Press’s decision to censor some of its content in China for the London Review of Books Blog.
Reading in Stockholm
Looking forward to reading from The Casualties in Stockholm next week. Event details here.
The ‘perfect police state’
Two very good pieces from Xinjiang this week – one, a look at the securitisation of Xinjiang by Tom Philips in The Guardian (in which I am quoted), the other a nice piece of reporting from Bortala in Xinjiang by Edward Wong from the New York Times.
