Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. More
Columbia University Press, March 2023. Trade Paperback. Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language, culture, and politics. Nonetheless, American media coverage of..... More
House of Anansi Press, September 2021. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, February 2013. Trade Paperback. More
Verso, April 2021. Trade Paperback. More
Anchor, August 2012. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Press, August 2023. Hardcover. A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in..... More
MCCM Creations, 2019. Trade Paperback. In an ancient time, ten old men went to work creating the sky and the land. Yet the sky was not strong enough, and it collapsed. . . . They needed an umbrella under the sky instead and asked Goddess Washuang to make one. Clever..... More
Vintage, August 2020. Trade Paperback. *** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING*** 'Revelatory and instructive... [a] beautifully written..... More
Harper Perennial, July 2012. Trade Paperback. "A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China's secretive rulers." --The Economist "Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives..... More
New York Review Books, October 2003. Trade Paperback. At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the "Fourth Generation" of rulers of the People's Republic--following the generations of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and..... More
Riverhead Books, January 2023. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy..... More
FSG Adult, October 2020. Trade Paperback. In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that..... More
One Signal Publishers, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A "memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square" (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time" (Philip Gourevitch)..... More
IDW Publishing, June 2020. Hardcover. Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident -- otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre -- from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all. Over 30 years ago, on April 15th 1989, the occupation of Tiananmen Square began..... More