Ting Lin

Ting Lin is a writer based between San Francisco and Beijing.

A woman cleans the street near the Drum Tower in Beijing, 2025.

What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite

Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among the Chinese upper crust and the people who wait on them.

Mar 27, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ting Lin

Cyclists waiting at railroad crossing in Shenyang, China, 1990.

The Dislocations of Shuang Xuetao The Dislocations of Shuang Xuetao

The Chinese writer’s fiction details how the country transformed on an intimate level after the Cultural Revolution.

Dec 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Ting Lin

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