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"Looking away from the Uyghur crisis…carries a cost for everyone" argue Zubayra Shamseden and Peter Irwin:
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China exporting "engineered catharsis"—the microdramas taking over the internet, by Shirley Xinyi Cai:
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What can we expect from the Xi-Trump meeting next week?
ChinaFile presents a Conversation, in partnership with Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis:
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"I had never read a book like this—about us—in either Chinese or English. It would not have passed censorship in China. Yet it’s nothing like the English-language literary fiction about China I’ve read in the past…"
Shen Lu on M Lin's The Memory Museum:
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"Many of them mentioned the word 'involution'—which I’d been reading about from afar since 2020—but it also seemed as if life in China had never been this good."
@goldkorn returns to China after a decade away:
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How to freak out the Chinese and American internets in one interview with Christopher Nolan:
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ALT Photo of Zhong Shu and Christopher Nolan, from https://alltimehai.substack.com/p/a-chinese-podcaster-interviewed-christopher
Many Chinese journalists joined Western newsrooms hoping to report with more freedom. But some have become disillusioned, as more than a dozen journalists shared anonymously with @MM_editorial.
@annakook catches you up:
A Chinese podcaster pressed Christopher Nolan on whether he'd "Christianized" The Odyssey. The interview went viral — then two internets started arguing about what it meant. New from ChinaFile's Hai 海:
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"It may be hard to make money in China in 2026, but it is very pleasant to spend it." Jeremy Goldkorn returns to China after a decade away:
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A Shanghai bookstore was shut down by the Chinese state in 2018. Six years later, it reopened in Washington, D.C. Yangyang Cheng spent months reporting the full, complicated story of Jifeng — chinafile.com/reporting-opin…
China's specialty coffee scene just landed in NYC. Hǎi's Muyi Xiao sipped Yunnan-grown coffee for the first time — at a café in Long Island City:
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Hot pot and dumpling bistros, Pilates studios, viral massage videos: In Mexico City, young Chinese women are building businesses—and lives—on their own terms. New from Hǎi 海, ChinaFile's project on global Chinese lives:
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"Xi Jinping won the agenda for his summit with Donald Trump before Airforce One touched down in Beijing," writes Robert Daly, director of the Program on China and the United States at the University of Maryland. But what did the U.S. get?
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In her new graphic memoir 'Names and Faces,' comic artist Leise Hook illustrates a story of identity, exploring “the in-betweenness of being mixed-race.”
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ALT Excerpted from Names and Faces by Leise Hook. Published by Holt. Copyright © 2026 by Leise Hook. All rights reserved.
The latest issue of Hǎi 海 is out: an profile of Wang Yaqiu, and recommdations for Chinese cultural events and media from from around the world.
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China banned seafood imports, restricted dual-use exports, and sent joint bomber patrols with Russia near Japan. Is this a familiar pressure playbook—or something more ominous? ChinaFile's latest Conversation:
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The latest issue of Hǎi 海 newsletter includes a profile of ceramic artist Chang Liu, and listings of events, podcasts, and articles from the global Chinese community:
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"We wouldn't take Chinese or Saudi government money. At what point should we stop taking U.S. government money?" Amid funding cuts, the China human rights community some tough questions.
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