January 31, 2026 This essay was first published on the website China Change, which contains a number of translations and essays by and about imprisoned scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong––his work and thought focusing on democracy, human rights, and the Citizens Movement, among other topics. Professor Anthony Spires book, Everyday Democracy, is a compelling complement … Continue reading On Doing Small Things Towards Change – A Book Review
Book Reviews
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” by Beth Lew-Williams”
This book review originally appeared on the Asian Review of Books website (8/20/2018) "https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chinese-must-go-violence-exclusion-and-the-making-of-the-alien-in-america-by-beth-lew-williams/" A photo labeled “A Chinese Slave Girl, Chinatown. San Francisco.” ca. 1905 Oakland Museum of California In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from … Continue reading The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” by Beth Lew-Williams”
“The Chilli Bean Paste Clan” by Yan Ge
First published in Asian Review of Books (8/11/2018) https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/the-chilli-bean-paste-clan-by-yan-ge/ The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, Yan Ge, Nicky Harman (trans) (Balestier, May 2018) Yan Ge’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan should come with a warning on the cover: “contents may cause readers to break into a sweat and consume unhealthy amounts of Laoganma spicy chilli crisp.” The setting for … Continue reading “The Chilli Bean Paste Clan” by Yan Ge
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