Where the Wild Things Are: China's Art Dreamers at the Guggenheim
The signature work at “Art and China After 1989,” a highly anticipated show that takes over the Guggenheim on Oct. 6, is a simple table with a see-through dome shaped like the back of a tortoise. On the tabletop hundreds of insects and reptiles...
Cambridge University Press Faces Backlash after Bowing to China Censorship Pressure
Cambridge University Press announced Friday it had removed 300 articles and book reviews from a version of the “China Quarterly” website available in China at the request of the government.
Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, Who Fought for Democracy in China, Dies in Police Custody
Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who embodied the hopes of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement long after the protests were crushed, died in detention on Thursday after a battle with liver cancer, according to a government statement...
China’s Last Tiananmen Prisoner Set to be Freed, but Frail
Miao Deshun, the 51-year-old former factory worker, is severely ill after spending more than half his life behind bars
Wan Li Obituary
Former leader Wan Li, who died at age 98, was a reform-minded communist. In the post-Mao Zedong era, Wan achieved one great success only to fail dismally in another crucial enterprise.