Nobel laureate Mo Yan reflects on why stories are getting shorter, from flash fiction to short video culture, and how digital reading is reshaping literature.
At a recent literary event in Hangzhou, Nobel...
Chinese illustrator Cai Gao wins the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration, becoming the first Chinese artist to receive the illustrator prize.
Chinese illustrator Cai Gao won the Illustrator...
How do personal stories intertwine with the broad currents of history? Our third monthly selection looks at the human experience within the broader tides of China’s past and present.
Across memoir, fiction...
More than twenty years ago, the man who has just won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature travelled to China in search of a spiritual utopia inspired by its classical civilisation. Here is his story.
A...
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose journeys to China and Japan have inspired several of his works.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has...