Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He was awarded a 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship to write his forthcoming book, Sparks.
For most of her life, Wang Youqin has strived to document victims of the Cultural Revolution, telling their stories without sentimentality or — in many cases, when the victims were also perpetrators of violence — remorse. For the first time, her work is now available in English.
How can we understand China if we don’t know what its most prominent intellectuals are saying? A translation project by David Ownby aims to make up for the absence of Chinese voices in Western discussions about the country that nobody can afford to ignore.