Edmund Backhouse, the 20th century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con-artist, is perhaps best known for his incendiary memoirs, which not only distorted Western understanding of Chinese history for more than 50 years, but...
Coming Home, directed by the celebrated Zhang Yimou and released in the U.S. last week, begins as a man escapes a labor camp in China’s northwest and tries to return home. But he is captured when he and his wife attempt...
The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country.
China, under the presidency of Xi Jinping, has invited a number of breathless pronouncements about the state of the country. Chinese media regularly conjure the “Chinese Dream,” one of Xi’s favored phrases, which means whatever readers want it to...
Amnesty International called for the release of eight mainland Chinese activists.
China has reacted furiously at Hillary Clinton's recent comments about China's record on women's rights.
Xi Jinping did something unusual, almost unheard of, for a Chinese President: He cracked a joke. In public.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States today on his first state visit. Xi will address a group of American business leadersin Seattle. High on their list of concerns about trade with China is cyber hacking, cyber espionage and...
China's movie market is thriving.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Rupert Murdoch that Western media organisations are “welcome” in China, despite the continued blocking of numerous foreign websites for their reporting on the country. “(We) welcome foreign media and...
News organizations from across Africa and around the world are devoting more resources to covering China’s engagement on the continent. The overall quantity of coverage has undoubtedly increased over the past decade. The key question, though, is...
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke revealed that producers are lobbying for his latest feature, Mountains May Depart, to be submitted.
The discussion on the expansion of the entertainment industry in China and differences between audiences in the U.S. and Asia
The upcoming court case of a filmmaker from Beijing, stands out.
Chinese firms are stepping up their investments in Hollywood, to protect their own market share.
As of Sept. 12,Monster Hunthad grossed a whopping RMB 2.428 billion (US$380.95 million).
In late July, Chinese authorities renewed travel privileges for conceptual artist and political activist Ai Weiwei, ending a five-year prohibition following his arrest in 2011. He promptly flew to Munich and then Berlin, where he has accepted a...
The law is now subject to discussion and approval by the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.
A photo of Syrian three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, who drowned as his family attempted to flee their war-torn homeland by crossing the Mediterranean Sea to find refuge in Greece, has stunned viewers across Europe and the...
The Movie lures and repels lovers of nature into the theater.
China’s state media Xinhua has lashed out at a recent documentary series by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
In July, while in New York, I toured The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s much buzzed about “...
The Tom Cruise movie scored the top opening of all time for a 2D Hollywood title with $18.5 million on Tuesday.
Three years after Xi Jinping took control of China’s Communist Party and assumed the country’s leadership, he has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful people. But his tenure has also raised uncomfortable questions. Is he a reformer bent on...
China’s stock markets have been in free-fall for some time. Now, so is a financial journalist who had the temerity to write about them. On August 31, Chinese journalist Wang Xiaolu confessed on state-run China Central Television (CCTV) to writing...
In light of the September 3, 2015, mega military parade held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing both to mark the seventieth anniversary of the end of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945 and to acclaim the achievements of Xi Jinping, China’s Chairman...
China celebrates a new national holiday to honor the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
On August 26, the Israeli Embassy in China posted a one-minute video to its official account on Weibo, China’s huge microblogging platform,...
Psychologists have hailed coloring as a good relaxation technique, and some have likened it to meditation.
As anyone who reads the Sinocism newsletter knows, Bill Bishop is among the most plugged-in people in Beijing with an uncanny ability to figure out what is actually happening in the halls of power. But as casual readers may not be aware, he is...
The moves indicate the political sensitivities aggravated in recent weeks by several volatile issues.
On the morning of August 26, a reporter and a cameraman for a local Virginia television station were fatally shot during a live television...
August 24, which some have already dubbed “Black Monday,” was not a kind day to global equity markets. The rout began with a massive sell-off in China, where the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.49 percent in just one day. Those...
The panic may weaken demand for U.S. exports. But that could make some goods cheaper for consumers.
If elected, Trump vowed to eschew the lavish dinner Xi Jinping will get in Washington from President Obama.
The joint venture would produce local-language films for Asian audience.
CEO Tim Cook emailed “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer to say the App Store in China had its best performance of the year in the last two weeks.
The Chinese writer Liu Cixin has won the 2015 Hugo Award, the first time the prestigious prize has gone to a Chinese writer.
While victims of the Tianjin explosions are still waiting to be told why their loved ones died or, how safe it is to go outside, officials remained evasive in the sixth press conference regarding the disaster.
In response to a question...
The long arm of China’s massive internal security apparatus just reached further into the heart of the country’s web. On August 4, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that it would embed law enforcement officers at major...
He committed "a serious violation of political discipline" mocking the man who led the Cultural Revolution and sparked a crippling famine.
First codenamed "Dancing Panda" by U.S. officials was detected in April 2010, according to a top secret NSA briefing from 2014.
Upon hearing that Beijing would be hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, we wondered what the Chinese government was thinking. The decision seemed counterintuitive, to say the least: For one thing, it barely snows in Beijing, or even...
They rarely trash hotel rooms or boast about drugs, but Chinese rock stars could at least be counted on to smoke. Now even that’s starting to change in the face of a smoking ban in China’s capital that shows little sign of burning...
Alibaba on Tuesday named J. Michael Evans, who already serves on its board, as its president.
Teresa Teng’s influence is particularly powerful in China, which her parents had fled after the revolution.
In her recent article, “What China’s Lack of Transparency Means for U.S. Policy,” U.S.-China relations expert Susan Shirk caused a stir when she argued that China’s “lack of transparency” around public policy making, defense, national security,...
By trying to control the market China's rulers show that despite 25 years of success they have no idea what they’re doing.
Beijing will stage the winter games in the desert.
Jordan first sued Qiaodan Sports in 2012 for using his Chinese name, his team number 23, and a jumping man logo to sell basketball shoes and jerseys.
Chinese audiences are growing, more theaters are being built, and the movies are getting better.
On July 16, the lower house of the Japanese Parliament passed a set of new...
