Alec Ash is a writer and editor focused on China. Currently, he edits China Books Review, a literary review about China co-published by The Wire China and Asia Society. From 2008 to 2022, he lived in China, and he previously edited the China Channel at the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2016, he published Wish Lanterns, a book following the lives of six young Chinese people in Beijing. This year, Ash published The Mountains are High, a reported memoir which follows city escapees, including hims