book review

Running through March 22, the latest installment of the Bookworm International Literary Festival kicked off this week in Beijing. Read More

From hard-hitting studies of China’s automobile industry and sustainable future to fresh romantic novels, here are Jing Daily’s favorite China reads for fall 2012. Read More

"The Scramble For China" takes readers on a journey deep into China's "century of humiliation," a time when decadent Manchu officials, unscrupulous capitalists, globetrotting imperial powers, and would-be messiahs came together, clashed incessantly, and nearly tore China apart. Read More

From hard-hitting economics and business primers to a hair-raising historical portrait and graphic novel, here are Jing Daily's five favorite China reads for summer 2012. Read More

Hitting stores in March of next year, The End of Cheap China by Shaun Rein sheds valuable light the important trends currently taking shape in China that will reshape not only the country, but the world itself, in the years ahead. Read More

"The Chinese Dream" is enlightening for anyone interested not only in the economic importance of the Chinese middle class today, but also of this group's cultural and political implications for the China of tomorrow. Read More

Tracing the unforgiving and ragged path taken by Baron Gustaf Mannerheim during his 1905-1907 investigation of Qing Dynasty China, The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds is a sweeping journey through the patchwork quilt that is the gray area between Central and East Asia. Read More

In part one of our two-part interview, we discuss the increasing economic interdependence of China and the West and the opportunities presented by the growing Chinese middle class for American exporters. Read More

Some great summer reads, some new and some worth a second look, recommended by the Jing Daily team for anyone with an interest in China and some time to kill at the beach or at the airport. Read More

When viewed in contrast to the leaden strides other major economies have made toward recovery, the rosy news coming out of a number of Chinese industries give some observers cause for celebration and others cause for concern. Read More