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The Undying Chinese Writing System
Colin Marshall reviews two books about the past and present of the Chinese writing system.
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water
Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.
If Not a Nemesis, a Mirror?
Chris Featherman looks at Marlène Laruelle’s “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime.”
An Asynchronous Patchwork
Matthew Longo examines Ed Pulford’s studies of culture and temporality within the China-Russia-Korea borderlands.
We’re Not Happy Until You’re Not Happy
Diana Heald reviews Sophie Gilbert’s “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves.”
Sneering at, or with, “The White Lotus”
Kyle Stevens examines the farce at the heart of the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
Riding the Korean Wave
Oliver Wang interviews Euny Hong about her expanded edition of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.”
An Irishman’s Love Letter to Saigon
Mary Kay Magistad investigates Connla Stokes’s “Falling for Saigon.”
Sitting with the Grief
Jenna N. Hanchey explores the recent anthology “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” edited by Eugen Bacon.
“We’re All Chinese, Aren’t We?”
Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”
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