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Now and Then

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

Into Africa

by Howard W. French,

By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…

Fei Fei

by Liao Yiwu,Translated by Wenguang Huang,

By Liao Yiwu, from For a Song and a Hundred Songs, out next month from New Harvest. Liao, who was born in China in 1958, spent four years in prison…

They Came Out Like Ants!

by William T. Vollmann,

Searching for the Chinese tunnels of Mexicali

The new China hits the road

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Greg Girard,

Beijing’s China card

Translated by Shi Heping,

Inside Qin Cheng Prison

From “Qin Cheng Prison: A Story,” by a twenty-one-year-old Chinese student. The author, who wishes to remain anonymous, was arrested last summer for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest…

Walking the great mall

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Dragon lady

by Johanna Kaplan,

Episode in Malaya

by Michael Keon,