Alec Ash is a writer based in China. He is the author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China (Picador, 2016), a literary nonfiction book following the lives of six young Chinese, featured as a BBC Book of the Week.

Alec Ash

Hong Kong’s Tears of Anger: How a Democracy Movement Radicalized

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Ai Weiwei’s Blog

The Last Rant: On Ai Weiwei

Alec Ash is a writer based in China. He is the author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China (Picador, 2016), a literary nonfiction book following the lives of six young Chinese, featured as a BBC Book of the Week.