David Tang, Fashion Retailer and Raconteur, Dies at 63
David Tang, the founder of Shanghai Tang, a global chain of flashy emporiums of Chinese-inspired clothing, accessories and home furnishings, and a prominent writer and raconteur in Hong Kong and Britain, died on Tuesday in London. He was 63.
China Writers Remember Robert Silvers
Robert Silvers died on Monday, March 20, after serving as The New York Review of Books Editor since 1963. Over almost six decades, Silvers cultivated one of the most interesting, reflective, and lustrous stables of China writers in the world,...
Delia Davin Obituary
A pioneer of Chinese women’s studies who avoided the stereotypes offered by the communist regime and its critics
Simon Leys Remembered
Isabel Hilton: When I heard the news of the death of Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name,...
China's Legendary ‘Crazy Yang’ Oil Trader Dies
Legendary Chinese oil trader “Crazy Yang” Qinglong, who started China's oil business with Iran in the 1990s and was renowned as a hard-drinker who bear-hugged Iranian officials, has died, said company officials and...
James Cahill, Influential Authority on Chinese Art, Dies at 87
James Cahill was one of the foremost authorities on Chinese art whose interpretations of Chinese painting for the West influenced generations of scholars.
C. T. Hsia, Who Brought Chinese Literature to the West, Dies at 92
Hsia argued that Chinese writers suffered from an "obsession with China."
Bishop Who Brought Church Back From Maoist Persecution, Dies At Age 96
Jin Luxian’s death leaves one of China’s largest and wealthiest dioceses in a deeply unsettled state, underscoring continuing tensions generated by the ruling Communist Party’s control of all organized religions.
Zao Wou-Ki, Seen As Modern Art Master, Dies At 92
Zao Wou-ki, one of the few Chinese-born painters to be considered a master of 20th-century modern art in the West, died at his home in Switzerland on April 9, 2013. He was 92.
John King Fairbank (1907–1991)
from New York Review of BooksJohn Fairbank, who died on September 14 at the age of eighty-four, read virtually all serious Western works on China. Reviewing them, principally for The New York Review in the last several years, was for him one way of keeping abreast...