Alec Ash

These are the longform articles I am reading right now (updated automatically via Instapaper):

A Letter from Beijing - by Kaiser Y Kuo - Sinica

How China’s Underground Historians Fight the Politics of Amnesia

How Chinese Students Experience America

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built

Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”

The Grievance Artist | Mark Danner

‘Europe Whole and Free’ | Timothy Garton Ash

How to Deal with the Chinese Revolution | China Books Review

Black Swan Times | Tim Judah

The Mind: Less Puzzling in Chinese? | Perry Link

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An NPR Book of the Year


"A talented young observer of today’s China" – Peter Hessler

"A gorgeously written meditation" – Barbara Demick

"Equally tender and insightful" – Yangyang Cheng

"Alive with the complications of truth" – Evan Osnos