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The One about the Café in Beijing
Plenty of Western television shows are popular in China. When I lived here between 2006 and 2008, Lost and Prison Break occupied my classmates’ free time, while Gossip Girl became a hit after I left. More recently, the English-language press has developed a mini-genre of articles exploring the Chinese appetite for various Western TV shows:…
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WSJ China Real Time Report: The Vulnerability of China’s Left-Behind Children
At the end of January, I was visiting my aunt in Florida and the two of us spent a lot of time talking about what I would be doing once I finish my PhD this year. I said that I was planning to focus on freelance writing and a couple of bigger projects I have…
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Recap: #SILF2014
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Shanghai Litfest is one of the best things about living in the city. This is the third time I’ve been around to attend it, and I went to far more sessions this year than I ever have before. I can honestly say that I didn’t…
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LA Review of Books: River of Dust
This year’s Shanghai International Literary Festival was a whole lot of fun—I got to see half a dozen excellent writers discuss their latest work, and I hope to post a rundown of all that later today or tomorrow. I was also asked to moderate one session, which featured novelist Virginia Pye talking about the family…
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Ningbo Event: China’s Past, China’s Present
One late addition to the mini book tour that Jeff Wasserstrom and I have put together to spread the word about the second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know: on Friday, March 14 (so, tomorrow), we’ll be at the University of Nottingham’s campus in Ningbo, China. Our talk on…
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Beijing Event: China’s Past/China’s Present
As promised, full details about the event I’ll be doing with Jeff Wasserstrom in Beijing on the morning of Wednesday, March 19 are now up on the Foreign Correspondents’ Club website.
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It’s a Freelance Life
It has taken me a very long time to start describing myself as “a freelance writer.” In fact, I don’t think I really felt okay about it until I heard other people refer to me as one—a classic case of impostor syndrome—which then gave me “permission” to apply the label to myself. But I’ve finally…
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Shanghai Event: History in the Headlines
Next Thursday (March 13), Jeff Wasserstrom and I will be speaking at lunchtime event hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Shanghai. In “History in the Headlines: How Does China’s Past Inform the Present?”, we’ll be putting current events in a long-term perspective, which is something that both of us do in our respective writing…
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Lei Feng and the Chinese Dream
A few months ago, I was talking with a Chinese history professor here and somehow came to mention the name Lei Feng in passing. “You know Lei Feng?!?” he exclaimed, laughing. Well, any China history nerd worth her salt knows Lei Feng, “the yeti of Chinese Communist history,” whose brief life became fodder for one…
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It’s Shanghai Litfest Time Again!
The Shanghai International Literary Festival is a bright spot in the middle of Shanghai’s cold, damp winters. This year’s festival kicked off last night with a very swanky cocktail party at the Glamour Bar on the Bund. (The fact that I was willing to put on makeup, heels, and stockings on a Wednesday night is…
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 