Articles By Alec Ash
November 2016
Chinese literary phenomenon (and racecar driver) Han Han's essays are funny, sharp and wryly self-aware
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
January/February 2013
Blogger Han Han targets the official media and politicians but his omissions of subjects like Tibet highlights the limits of dissent in China
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
July/August 2012
China in Ten Words is a clarion call to the West. Yu Hua reminds us that the country is still struggling to escape an unresolved history
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
[1]
About Alec Ash
Alec Ash is a writer and journalist based in Beijing. He is the author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China, published by Picador.
Popular Standpoint topics
- Is Trump the man for a Korean missile crisis?
- The new issue of Standpoint is out now
- The new Leviathan: Trump and the nation state
- A portrait of the artists as a pair of young wastrels
- From perpetrator to victim
- The status quo cannot hold
- Tito's crimes should never be forgotten
- Pandering to the culture vultures and philistines