History and Literature

China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing.

Credit…Illustration by Linda Huang; source photograph by Tsering Dorje By Ian Johnson Mr. Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent two decades in China. 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “In 1959, a group of university students in the northwestern Chinese city of Tianshui embarked on a quixotic plan. China was in the midst of the Great Famine, a catastrophe …

China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing. Read More »

My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life.

Jan. 29, 2022, 769 comments. NYT. By Viet Thanh Nguyen Mr. Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” and the children’s book “Chicken of the Sea,” written with his then 5-year-old son, Ellison. “When I was 12 or 13 years old, I was not prepared for the racism, the brutality or the …

My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life. Read More »

Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers

July 8, 2021 550 Comments By Viet Thanh Nguyen Mr. Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” and its sequel, “The Committed.” He is a professor of English, American studies and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. “When I give lectures on college campuses, the most difficult question I am …

Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers Read More »

Opinion | How to Survive as a Woman at a Chinese Banquet – By Yan Ge – The New York Times

By Yan Ge Ms. Yan is the author of 13 books, including, most recently, “The Chilli Bean Paste Clan.” Nov. 30, 2019 305 Credit…Lisk Feng 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “A Chinese banquet can be many things, but it is never a gastronomic occasion. It is more like a sport, one in which the primary goal is to drink a toast with …

Opinion | How to Survive as a Woman at a Chinese Banquet – By Yan Ge – The New York Times Read More »