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Alec Ash
China Books Review Editor
editor@chinabooksreview.comAlec Ash is editor of China Books Review, a partnership between The Wire China and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is the author of Wish Lanterns (Picador, 2016), literary nonfiction about the lives of young Chinese people which was a BBC Book of the Week, and The Mountains Are High (Scribe,…
Alec Ash is editor of China Books Review, a partnership between The Wire China and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is the author of Wish Lanterns (Picador, 2016), literary nonfiction about the lives of young Chinese people which was a BBC Book of the Week, and The Mountains Are High (Scribe, 2024) about city escapees moving to rural southwest China. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic and elsewhere, and was a stringer for The Economist and The Sunday Times. He was editor of the China Channel at the Los Angeles Review of Books, contributing author to the book of reportage Chinese Characters, and co-editor of the anthology While We’re Here. He lived in China from 2008-2022, and is currently based in New York.