Skip to content
China Channel

China Channel

for Sinophiles and the Sinocurious

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Mission
  • Editors
  • Follow
  • Support

Author: Angela Qian

Angela Qian is a writer and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, Catapult, The Millions, The Toast and other publications.
Reviews

The Writer Who Came in from the Cold

October 22, 2018October 25, 2018 Angela Qian

Angela Qian reviews Na Duo’s All the Way to Death

It’s a fascinating premise: a man wakes up on the bank of the Yulong River without any memory of the last five years of his life, then launches a successful career as a suspense writer. In the years since, he hasn’t recovered any of his memories. That is, until now.

READ MORE
 

Favorite posts

Four Fates in a Changing China
Yu Hua, trans. Allan Barr

Xi Jinping: Philosopher King
Sam Crane

They Shut Down the City
Xiaoyu Lu

The Afterlife of Lu Xun
Julia Lovell

Illiberal China
Josh Freedman

Most read posts

  • Redeeming Empress Gi
  • Who Wrote China’s Most Notorious Erotic Novel?
  • Seeing Sini
  • China’s Anime and Cosplay Obsession
  • Skeletons in the Golf Course

Essays

  • The Chinese Intellectual Memorialized in Oxford
  • Xi Jinping: Philosopher King
  • Emojis on the Wall

Reviews

  • The Sincere Indignation of Simon Leys
  • China Memoirs Get Personal
  • What Does China Want?

Dispatches

  • A Tour of Lesbian Hong Kong
  • A Dream of Grey Mansions
  • Searching for Home

Translation

  • Three Sketches of Peter Hessler
  • Four Fates in a Changing China
  • The Picun Writer’s Group: Part One

Podcasts

  • Choose Your Own Dystopia
  • Power Projection
  • San Mao’s translator on Stories of the Sahara

Photography

  • Lhasa in the Cultural Revolution: A Photo Essay
  • Second-Tier China
  • Badlands of Xinjiang

Q&A

  • Let Not-Knowing Push You Somewhere New
  • The State of Chinese Sci-fi
  • The Ghosts Inside

Hidden History

  • The Refugee Emperor
  • Republican China’s Most Mysterious Man
  • A Very British Time in China

Borderlands

  • The Toisan Shout
  • Caught Between Two Countries
  • Down from the Mountains

Diaspora

  • Who Are the Peranakan Chinese?
  • Queer Finds Family
  • Blood and Soil

Chinese Corner

  • Don’t You Call Me That
  • Two Shades of Pleasure
  • An Egg Tart by Any Other Name

Listicles

  • Old China Blogs
  • 12 Best China Documentaries
  • 12 Best Modern Chinese Films

Staff Picks

  • Legend of the Purple Hairpin
  • Christmas Staff Picks
  • Christmas Staff Picks

Image of the week

Our header image rotates on a weekly basis. To explore past images, visit our ‘Image of the Week’ archive.

Categories

Archive

Sponsors

   

 
The China Channel is an affiliated channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. It is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, the Cheng Shewo Foundation, the Langfitt Family Foundation and Stephen O. Lesser, with further support from the UCI Long US-China Institute and our readers on Patreon.

Testimonials

"An abundant array of conversation, reporting, essays and storytelling about China that is as surprising and thought-provoking as the country itself."
– James Fallows, writer for The Atlantic

"China journalists, scholars and students write about what makes the country tick, with the careful attentiveness and expertise of true enthusiasts."
– Helen Gao, New York Times op-ed writer

"Those looking for crisply written and authoritative analyses of Chinese politics and culture will be generously rewarded at the China Channel."
– Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger

Write for Us

We are not currently welcoming new article submissions, and the site and its associated email address is now closed. Please refer to our submission guidelines for more information. We pay for all accepted articles.
 

Loading Comments...