As the 14th annual Asia Security Summit—or the Shangri-La Dialogue, as it has come to be known—gets underway in Singapore, we asked contributors to comment on...
Though none of his works have been publicly shown in China, Hu Jie is one of his country’s most noteworthy filmmakers. He is best known for his trilogy of documentaries about Maoist China, which includes Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul (...
At the May 21 Asia Society event ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the...
It doesn't take much exposure to China to realize the pervasiveness of identity politics here. Indeed, whether in the Chinese government’s occasionally hamfisted efforts to micromanage ethnic minority cultures or the Foreign Ministry’s soft-power...
U.S. military superiority is required to keep the Asia-Pacific region from getting out of hand.
The Shanghai International Film Festival will screen the original six films.
The Guangdong-born director’s film is a study in contemplative art despite its action-packed premise.
Few rivers have captured the soul of a nation more deeply than the Yellow River. Historically a symbol of enduring glory, a force of nature both feared and revered, it has provided water for life downstream for thousands of years.
When a prisoner pulls his hand from underneath the heroine's dress, he is holding a bomb, which he then detonates.
As political wrangling in Hong Kong continues over changes to...
More than 5,000 Indian expats are expected to attend an event on Saturday.
Experts say it's increasingly likley that Beijing will declare an Air Defense Identification Zone in the area.
It can be embarrassing for a China scholar like me to read Eileen Chang’s pellucid prose, written more than sixty years ago, on the early years of the People’s Republic of China. How many cudgels to the head did I need before arriving at...
China bases its nuclear submarines, including the four equipped to launch ballistic missiles, on Hainan Island.
Indian and Chinese officials are promoting Modi’s three-day visit as a business trip filled out with displays of good will.
A stunning dearth of fraternal ties exist between the two Asian superpowers.
Option to challenge Beijing in South China Sea is fraught with danger.
Pentagon proposal to use aircraft and Navy vessels in region prompts swift response: ‘We are severely concerned’.
“ ‘China’s Outer Lands’ is about people instinctively looking for their own identity, between conformity or originality or autonomy or dependence,” Mr. Sakamaki said. “It’s natural, it’s happening in not only China, it’s everywhere.”
For China to join the MIRV club strains China’s claim of having a minimum nuclear deterrent.
Foreign Policy has put together an interactive guide tracking Beijing’s victories and obstacles along the new Silk Road. The list of participating countries is still not finalized, but with China forking out billions in trade deals and...
Beijing could buy more U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is an imperfect symbol of the wartime past and an uncertain one for Russia’s future.
Some in Washington are calling for President Obama to cancel China’s invitation to the largest maritime military exercise in the world.
Authorities must place scientific and technological innovation at the heart of the drive to reform.
Xi Jinping and Kuomintang leader Eric Chu’s summit Monday is the first between respective party leaders since 2009.
Stanford historian argues an effective political system has to balance state capacity against rule of law and democracy.
Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China in 1979 left more than 50,000 dead.
Shinzo Abe denounced for not repeating previous PMs’ apologies for Japan using sex slaves during second world war.
Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
A devastating earthquake has struck one of China’s smallest neighbors, the mountainous former kingdom known, since 2008, as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Surrounded on three sides by India—known in Nepali as a “friendly nation”—Nepal...
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
The new dinosaur is named Yi qi (pronounced "ee chee") and means "strange wing" in Mandarin.
Low-ranking officials are in a state of continual fear as their colleagues vanish around them.
President says anti-globalization sentiments from left and right ‘a big mistake’
China's communist ally may already have 20 warheads and the enrichment capacity to double that number in a year.
China plans to build a modern version of the Silk Road through Pakistan and beyond.
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
Beijing looks West toward Eurasian integration.
Sino-Pakistan friendship, read Islamabad billboards, "is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel."
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
Gao Yu vows to appeal her 7-yr sentence for allegedly leaking Document 9, revealing Party hostility to human rights.
Chinese journalist Gao Yu's seven year sentence again shows how Beijing authorities deal with critics of the regime.
China's new airstrips sit in a shipping lane through which $5 trillion of trade passes each year.
“The underlying theme I heard when talking to people was that how you interpret things is how they will be, so its best to look at the bright side of things. You don’t mention bad dreams, or you try to interpret them in a positive way. People...
The Department of Commerce emphasized Obama's commitment to fighting climate change through clean energy development.
Speaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s...
This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The...
Zhao Ziyang, the premier and general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1980s, died on January 17, 2005. At a tightly...
CCTV is investigating a top presenters after he was caught calling Mao a “son of a bitch” at a private dinner.
A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema.
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser speak with Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford with a focus on Chinese Internet governance and author of the China Copyright and Media...
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa.
