Thrilled to make it onto NPR's list of their best books of 2024. "In this beautifully written book, Ash introduces us to [urban escapees in rural China]. They fittingly call Dali “Dalifornia,” for its chilled vibes, California-like good weather and picturesque mountains."

“You cannot live in the world acting like the world is going to end in five years, even if it is, in fact, going to end in five years,” they said. “You’re just going to go insane.” great piece by @jcbeam

RT @JohnDelury: This is my first (of many, I hope) contribution to the wonderful @chinabksreview @AsiaSociety a pleasure indeed being edite….

RT @michaelluo: Thanks @alecash for your perceptive questions. Latest interview on “Strangers in the Land” is with @chinabksreview. Worth a….

"In the post-Olympics glow of the 2010s, American readers were interested in stories about how the Chinese aren’t all that different from us: See, they play football too! . But the liberal-fantasy version was probably never going to work."

Our first print edition of @chinabksreview has landed, hot off the press! With a selection of our best articles and illustrations from the past year. Come to our events or email to get your copy.

"Human frailty is one of Han Song's themes his writing explores as he faces his own health struggles"

RT @Jifengbooks: #JFSALON #RSVP .The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China. Speaker: Alec Ash @alecash .Modera….

For those in DC, come next Friday to JF Books to hear me talk about my Dali book (and upcoming Chinese edition of it) with Emily Feng

Congrats to the winners! We were honored to see this prize through the gate, and the juries spend a lot of time reading and considering. Nominations for next year’s awards begin in Nov. .

"At least 44.1 million users managed to break through China’s Great Firewall weekly to read and listen to RFA . Yet today, as part of President Trump’s administrative cuts, RFA stands on the brink of extinction."

Those in DC, come listen to me talk at JF Books (and check out their impressive calendar of other speakers) 在DC的朋友们来听听

"The Chinese typewriter as an exotic impossibility is but one cultural manifestation of the long, charged debate over the relationship between modernity and the Chinese script.".

RT @chinabksreview: Thread: see the shortlisted books for the $10k Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Translated Literature f….

Our jury of five judges read over 50 books to come up with these five. It’s a great list, and one of them will win a $10k award. Follow @chinabksreview to find out which one next month.

RT @chinabksreview: We're pleased to announce a shortlist of five books for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Nonfiction….

Prodigy.

Did you wake up this morning wondering what Pontius Pilate has in common with Mao Zedong? Sure you did! Come to this @asiasocietyny event on Weds to feed the brainworm

and here’s the video:

Such mixed feelings. Stupid economic policy and lack of human feeling BUT Trump did use “couldn’t care less” instead of the American norm “could care less”. .

This was a lot of fun.