Dylan Levi King is a freelance writer and translator based in Tokyo. He has previously contributed to LARB’s China Channel and Sixth Tone. His most recent project is a translation of Dong Xi’s Record of Regret for University of Oklahoma Press.
Time and again, history has shown that economic statecraft — sanctions — are ineffective. Yet the future of modern warfare will be fought with spreadsheets, tariffs, and trade restrictions. Both the U.S. and China are gearing up, possibly to everyone's detriment.
In the 1990s, China’s inability to contain its relatively modest drug epidemic put it on the same road as America's failed war on drugs. But then, the number of new users in China began to drop dramatically…
Lu Xinghua is the sort of individual who complicates the outside world’s vision of China. He is a man of contradictions, an intellectual with brazen ideas who is disconnected from both mainstream politics and popular dissent.
China's rifle, the Type 95, was inspired by the utility of the AK-47 and the efficiency of the M16. It is both a practical firearm and a symbol of China's military development.
When the commodity frontier calls, entrepreneurs answer, and state policy follows.
No matter how wonderful socialist spiritual civilization was or is, the hunger for songs about hunger and heartache is universal. Enter Er Housheng, who connected with audiences by singing about suffering — most notably his own.
You’ve likely not heard of Zhina Wiki, Esu Wiki, or a slew of other 4chan-like forums in China that were recently forced to shut down...
Locked up in the cave, the only thing connecting me to the outside world was that one window and its lattice of forty-eight squares, forty-eight...
Liu Zhongjing, with his philosophy called “Auntology,” built a name for himself by espousing aggressively anti-leftist and anti-progressive views. But he’s reserved his most controversial...
Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His...