When Liu returned to his childhood village to celebrate Chinese New Year, his parents had arranged a familiar and depressing task for him: a series of speed dates. Over a week back in rural Jiangxi province, he met half a dozen potential wives in...
The Chinese Party-state is building a social credit system for collecting information about all of its citizens by police, courts, and other institutions. This enables the government to reach into society to a degree unprecedented...
How the economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
The Chinese government may consider giving families financial incentives to have a second child in a bid to reach higher birth rate targets
China’s highflying box office got a reality check in 2016, as cutbacks in discounted tickets led to a sharp decline in cinema-revenue growth
Nationwide crackdown includes three-year jail sentence for 15-year-old who robbed his classmates
Beijing and the Vatican seem to want to come to an agreement, though who has the last word in appointing bishops is still a point of contention
China’s economic growth target, the depreciation of the yuan and a looming change in several senior Communist Party positions will be important factors
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has been charged with regulating the force that earlier was under the sole purview of local governments
China's millennials - roughly those aged between 18 and 35 - are embracing debt like never before
Mr. Dong is a thorn in the side of both the Vatican and the Chinese state. This 58-year-old laborer from a village in northern China calls himself a bishop
“We’ve chosen your children according to their physical attributes,” the leader told a group of parents at a Beijing public elementary school.
Tourist attraction aims to recreate the thrills and horror of doomed voyage
Beijing wants to give every citizen a score based on behavior such as spending habits and filial piety, which can bar citizens from loans, jobs, air travel
Meet Hao Jingfang, author of "Folding Beijing,” the science-fiction novelette that beat out Stephen King to win a Hugo Award.
Spray tans and hair dye: the transformation of a retired music professor into China's Trump impersonator
A new generation of immigrant restaurateurs is aiming to offer an updated spin on the Chinese restaurant, with prices to match
China is mourning the death of Yu Xu, the country's first female J-10 jet pilot who was killed during an aerobatic training session on Saturday
Anti-corruption watchdog orders return of outmoded greeting now embraced by gay men
Last year, at 79, Mr. Wang walked the runway for the first time, his physique at his age causing a national sensation
A small and decidedly nondescript city called Yanjiao, about an hour’s drive from Beijing, has been experiencing an influx of artists
A lack of parking spots worries Chinese car-owners--and fixing it will be hard
From commoners to renowned celebrities, Chinese bridesmaids are vulnerable to verbal harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse
Qi Xinghua, famous as a 3-D painter, says he wants to ‘add some fun to our lives’ by brightening up drab cityscapes
In the process, I learned why Chinese millennials can't seem to unplug from the live-streaming craze.
A shrewd product placement on a popular soap opera has propelled a Western breakfast cereal to frenzied popularity in China, sending prices up almost ten times in the gray market
“No fines, no arrests. Go ahead and have a second child if you want one!” The problem is that many people don’t want a second child any more.
The defendants told detectives they’d targeted Xinran Ji because he was Chinese and they suspected he had money
Despite being decriminalized in 1997, homosexuality is still heavily stigmatized in China.
Chinese children must endure years of stress and impossible expectations preparing for their final school exam
To the well-dressed woman on the Upper East Side, annoyed by our stroller, that yelled "Go back to China...Go back to your f---ing country"
With U.S. guidance, China is launching a pilot project that spans nine provinces
Drowning is now the #1 killer of Chinese children under the age of 14, topping traffic accidents and infectious disease
The museum was covered up and shut down in the spring, a few weeks before the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution.
Unexpectedly, the new hot destination is Morocco
As China's economy has slowed, so too has its appetite for instant noodles
Scan your server's QR code if you like your service
Pizza is just one of thousands of “wild” animals languishing in China's malls
A father’s death in custody is the latest incident to fuel urbanites’ sense of unease.
Red has been considered the color of prosperity and good fortune in China for centuries, and it is also the color of the Communist Party.
The customs authorities in Shanghai have seized nearly 120,000 counterfeit surgical masks.
China is quickly becoming a nation of singles.
In a country where cash and connections rule, one bastion of meritocracy, it was thought, remained: admission to a university.
Two decades ago, Tyler Xiong and his parents had to live in a commune guided by the strict socialist teachings of Mao Zedong.
China is the world's largest vehicle market, and possibly one of the world's most dangerous, if the latest figures are any indication.
Some Chinese Internet users are asking: is it a kind-hearted gift or a tax dodge?
Some criticized the woman for exposing her "sexual organs" in public.
The rise in diabetes in China could bankrupt the country’
Gay activists in China brought their demands for public acceptance to a court.
I don't much care to weigh in on the subject of Hong Kong remaining a place where non-Asians are able to prosper.
Jindong Cai, 59, is an orchestra conductor and a professor at Stanford University.
It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution.
For years, multinational companies have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the growth of the Chinese middle class.
A senior Chinese health official said last year that China would stop using prisoners’ organs for transplants as of Jan. 1, 2015.
Around the world, there are legendary, dynastic rivalries in football.
With Deng’s political reforms in the 1980s and 1990s came increased discrimination based on appearance.
