Sarah Mellors is a doctoral student in Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine. She spent nearly four years in China. Find her on Twitter at @s_mellors.
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Love in the Time of Lotus
Lijia Zhang’s novel “Lotus” describes the life of a prostitute in China....

Ardor and Tenderness in China’s Capital
IN THE PARLANCE of American popular culture, Beijing Comrades combines the raunchiness of Fifty Shades of Grey with the tenderness of ...

Precious Windows into an Opaque Period
Sarah Mellors reviews Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism...

A Deep Search for Understanding
Chinese immigrants transform Italy....
