Dan Wang

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  • The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary Liked

    There is something deeply satisfying with reading out loud phrases like: “for in mere breath did it come, and into darkness it goes, and in darkness its name is covered.” Though King James is iconic, Robert Alter better conveys overall the literary power of the Hebrew Bible.

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  • Piranesi Loved

    I’d like to read more experimental books like this one. Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi is a glittering jewel.

    danwang.co 2026-01-01

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  • The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear Liked

    Nan Z. Da’s The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear also has an experimental form. Da is a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins who emigrated from Hangzhou before she was 7.

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  • 1913: The Year Before the Storm Liked

    1913: The Year Before the Storm presents a whimsical slice of Central Europe. Art historian Florian Illies collates fragments of leading figures month by month, diary-entry style.

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  • Austria 1867-1955 Mixed on

    John Boyer’s Austria 1867-1955 offers parts of the answer, though not in a conceptually organized way. It’s a work of history written for specialists, which means that the narrative serves the footnotes rather than the other way around.

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  • The Eastern Front Liked

    Nick Lloyd’s The Eastern Front covers the clashes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire as well as the Austro-Hungarians against the Italians and the Serbs. Whereas the western front was essentially static throughout the whole war, the east was characterized by the sort of maneuver warfare that most generals had expected to fight.

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  • The Wall Liked

    Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is short and engrossing. It was deemed a “Cold War” novel by the German press when it was published in 1963.

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  • The Red and the Black Loved

    I last picked up Stendhal’s The Red and the Black a decade ago. I wasn’t certain that the novel, which I keep calling my favorite, would hold up on re-reading.

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  • The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a pro… 18 Mar
  • For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and base… 28 Feb Quoting@deanwballThink about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind w…
  • Knowledge Wins — from the American Library Association (1917) 24 Jan
  • I loved this joint review of Jia Zhangke’s latest feature with Breakneck by @kirenitynow 19 Jan
  • Three book titles that made me laugh: There Is No Antimemetics Division The Future of Hegel Centrists of the World, Unite! 15 Jan
  • My annual letter: https://t.co/5axz7jVwOb This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the phys… 1 Jan

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  • 2025 letter 1 Jan
  • What we choose to fight is so tiny What fights with us is so great When we win it's with small things and the triumph itself makes us small This is how we grow… 5 Dec 2025 Quoting@nabeelquConversations with Tyler is like a tennis match and the perfect guest is somebody who can return @tylercowen's (fast) serve and in some cas…
  • A fun depiction from Chosun Ilbo 21 Nov 2025
  • An excellent opening to a funny and tragic piece on what it was like to work in Inner Mongolia state media: 12 Nov 2025
  • I'll be giving two talks open to the public: Oct 22 at Harvard's Fairbank Center with Susan Greenhalgh and Mark Wu https://t.co/rdcqV5bxVT Oct 27 at Stanford's… 20 Oct 2025
  • Yes, because technology is ultimately people and teams. The U.S. should hold on to talent rather than drive engineers out through immigration raids 25 Sept 2025 Quoting@tszzlcorrect me if im wrong but it seems like: - the theme of the @danwwang book, and the general elite consensus now is that “industrial proces…
  • A fun extension of by the lawyerly society by @Tom_Westgarth15: "The UK is closer to resembling a ‘managerial paralysis’: a surplus of managers, lawyers, HR st… 18 Sept 2025
  • Excited to chat with @JulianGewirtz tomorrow at Asia Society in New York 15 Sept 2025 Quoting@chinabksreviewDan Wang. LIVE at Asia Society. Next TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 @ 6:30. Spaces limited, buy your TICKETS now ➡️ https://t.co/n0bGaB9u2V In a…
  • I outline a bear case for China to @DouthatNYT: substantial numbers of the rich, the creative, and the desperate are eager to emigrate — the latter trekking ac… 9 Sept 2025
  • For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese https://t.co/48qiMEW8mG tomorrow at Politics and Prose W… 2 Sept 2025
  • Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future 25 Jul 2025
  • 2023 letter 23 Jan 2024
  • China notes, July ’23: on technological momentum 18 Jul 2023
  • 2022 letter 4 Mar 2023
  • 2021 letter 1 Jan 2022
  • 2020 letter 1 Jan 2021