The Trial of the Chinese Dream
Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
How a PLA General Built a Web of Corruption to Amass a Fortune
More than twenty policemen lined up at the gate of a massive mansion in a village in the central province of Henan at midnight on January 12, 2013, loading heavy crates onto two military trucks.
Hours later—loaded with twenty crates of...
China’s Detention of Uighur Professor Ilham Tohti Worries U.S.
The U.S. government and human rights activists are voicing concern about the detention of a professor who has been an outspoken advocate for China’s Uighur minority group.
China, Japan Slug It Out in World’s Press
Escalating disputes between Japan and China are spilling onto newspaper opinion pages around the globe as the rivals try to sway attitudes abroad and placate nationalist fervor at home.
Left-Behind Children of China’s Migrant Workers Bear Grown-Up Burdens
About 61 Million Chinese Kids Haven’t Seen One or Both Parents for at Least Three Months
Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed
Prominent activist, Xi Zhiyong, is indicted in a harsh warning to the New Citizens Movement.
Spring Festival Gala Performance by Chinese Rock Icon in Doubt
The popularity and pizzazz of China's “Godfather of Rock” is not worth the political risk for CCTV.
Debating China
America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential. How they choose to cooperate and compete affects billions of lives. But U.S.-China relations are complex and often delicate, featuring a multitude of critical issues that America and China must navigate together. Missteps could spell catastrophe.
In Rare Video, Wife of Jailed Nobel Laureate Reads Poems While Under House Arrest
The video was filmed by the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a free-speech advocacy group established by Ms. Liu.
China Playing a Long Game in Polar Governance
The recent Antarctic rescue of a Russian vessel highlights China's comprehensive polar strategy.
Found in Translation: King’s ‘Dream’ Plays in Beijing
The CCP emphasizes American history of inequality while leaving out points of domestic overlap.
Xi, Mao, and China’s Search for a Usable Past
Since its founding, the United States has had understandable pride in its great achievements, but also has had to reckon with its complex moral history—beginning but hardly ending with the fact that our original Constitution accepted the evil of...
Though I am Gone
(Vid) Wang Jingyao chronicles the murder of his wife, the first victim of the Cultural Revolution.
‘Cultural Threats’ Among Five Focuses of New National Security Panel, Colonel Says
Government committee is established to manage western threats to cyber and national security.
Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death
“How a country faces the future depends in large part on how it faces its past,” said former Red Gaurd in public apology for past violence.
Far Eastern Antipathies
Japan must reckon with England as an eventual addition to the enormous political strength of China and Russia.
Why Does China Coddle North Korea?
A larger crisis on the Korean peninsula would require Chinese involvement.
The New York Times Hires Michael Forsythe
Forsythe left Bloomberg after writing an article that threatened the Publication's presence in China.
New Detail Emerges About Bo Xilai’s Downfall
Sanlian Life said Australian reporter, John Garnaut, was involved in the Bo Xilai case.
White House Responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s China Controversy
A joke concerning the killing of Chinese people to avoid paying down U.S. debt was said live on ABC.
As Cannabis is Widely Legalized, China Cashes in on an Unprecedented Boom
Almost 5,000 years ago, Chinese physicians recommended a tea made from cannabis leaves to treat a wide variety of conditions including gout and malaria.
Major Leadership Shake-Up at China Film Group
La Peikang will take over from Han Sanping as the new head of the all-powerful state-backed film company, in a rare power transition for the Chinese industry.
Bremmer: China, Japan 2014’s Most Dangerous Spat
Political-risk expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group calls the bilateral conflict between China and Japan the "greatest geopolitical danger in the world in 2014" and discusses what reform means for China under new leader Xi Jinping.
China Renews Western Journalists’ Visas After Months-Long Standoff
Several Western journalists who faced expulsion from China were issued renewed visas by the Chinese government, ending a months-long standoff. But China is still on track to force at least one New York Times reporter to leave for the second year...
Confucius Comes Home
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China’s most important philosopher.
China: Reeducation Through Horror
from New York Review of BooksHere are two snippets from a Chinese Communist journal called People’s China, published in August 1956:
In 1956, despite the worst natural calamities in scores of years, China’s peasants, newly organized in co-
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Why are China and Japan Accusing Each Other of Being Voldemort?
Ill-tempered media exchanges between the Chinese and Japanese ambassadors to London invoked the universal cultural icon to embellish attacks over islands in the Asia-Pacific.
What Could Happen in China in 2014?
Gordon Orr predicts corporate focus on driving productivity, increased interest in CIOs, bankrupt shopping malls, and European investment in Chinese soccer clubs.
Moon Landing ‘100pc Made in China,’ says Xi Jinping
Contrary to Xi's claims, scientists have noted that the design of the moon rover has borrowed heavily from previous Soviet and American versions.
Guardian Website Blocked in China
The newspaper said that it may be due to a recently run article about ethnic tensions in the western region of Xinjiang.
China Confronts the Online Rumor Mill
(Op-ed) Hoewever unlikely, the best way of putting an end to Internet rumors is for the government to stop disseminating them.
How Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone Works
At a conference table surrounded by bookshelves in his Shanghai office, the city’s party boss Han Zheng recently polished the image of a commercial crown jewel—the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone—during an exclusive interview with Caixin...
Grand Theft China: Tase Corrupt Officials in New Online Game
Official corruption in China is a serious matter: In January 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping openly vowed to tackle it, and a 2013...
A New Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum Puts a Modern Face on Chinese Art
The art world has embraced the evolution of Western art, but when it comes to China, we seem stuck in the past. A new exhibit at the Met wants to shake up these stereotypes.
Chinese Firm Linked to CNPC Suspected of Fraud in Iraq
Just after the December 29 celebration of the Muslim holiday Ashura in southern Iraq, heads of the Iraqi subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) received a letter titled “Suspending all activities of Hermic.”
The sender of...
China Risks Hobbling its Economic Development with Too Many Policy Goals
(Op-ed) China's economic planners need to prune and prioritise their myriad policy objectives so the country can move with purpose towards the goal of structural rebalancing.
Will Xi Jinping Bring a Positive New Day to China?
Chinese President Xi Jinping, just over a year in office, recently made a rare appearance in public in a Beijing restaurant, buying a cheap lunch and paying for it himself...
2013, According to the Chinese Communist Party
What did the year in foreign policy look like in Chinese official circles? Divining the thoughts and motives of China’s leadership is a famously abstruse exercise even for Chinese citizens, who are often left to parse bland quotes or keep their...
China’s Kaifeng Jews Rediscover Their Heritage
In Kaifeng, where Sephardic Jews from the Silk Road settled in the 12th century, their descendants are rediscovering long-last religious practices and petitioning Israel for recognition.
Beijing Turns Cold Shoulder to Japan
Beijing has declared Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “not welcome” by the Chinese people and said Chinese leaders won’t meet him.
Remarks by Yang Jiechi on Abe’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine was in total disregard of international opposition, and blatantly paid homage to Class-A war criminals of World War II.
The Rise and Fall of a Local Official Obsessed
A November 27 statement by the Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog confirmed that the Deputy Governor of Hubei Province, Guo Youming, was being investigated for graft.
Three days later, Guo was removed from his post, becoming the...
How Andy Warhol Explains China’s Attitudes Toward Mao
The sheer number of Warhol’s screen prints of Mao’s face—at once persistent and reinvented—that captures, with unusual clarity, the attitude of China’s leaders today toward Mao, coloring and recoloring this legacy within an enduring outline....
On Chairman Mao’s Birthday, a Conflicting Legacy for Xi Jinping
Mr. Xi and the six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee–the top decision-making body—bowed three times at the mausoleum holding Mao’s body in a glass sarcophagus on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, state media said. Mr. Xi then addressed...
Japanese Premier Visits Contentious War Shrine
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of ...
Are You Qualified to Be a Journalist in China? Take the Test
The test is seen as another step in tightening the party’s control over media. At a conference in August, President Xi Jinping called for the “consolidation of mainstream ideology and opinion” to ensure a correct political direction by media...
Paying a Price to Cross China’s Border
For Chinese critics of the government, the border long ago acquired a political toll booth: Whichever way you cross, you pay a price.
[Transcript] One Year Later, China’s New Leaders
Nearly a year to the day after seven new leaders ascended to their posts on the Standing Committee of China’s Politburo, the Asia Society held a public...
In the Satellite Technology Race, China Hitched a Ride from Europe
The Beidou navigation system—developed with E.U. help—is a striking example of Beijing’s global dragnet for military know-how.
China Lashes Out at Japan Defence Plans
Japan will increase military spending by 2.6 percent over five years, leading China to accuse Tokyo of raising tensions.
The New Face of Chinese Propaganda
Not too long ago, the party’s Propaganda Department was renamed the Publicity Department. Old militant expressions like “overthrow,” “thoroughly destroy” and “strike hard,” and images of muscular workers and peasants in heroic postures, have been...
Top Chinese Security Official Is Investigated
Li Dongsheng, a vice minister of public security, is being investigated by the Communist Party for “suspected serious law and discipline violations,” according to Xinhua...
‘Community Corrections’ and the Road Ahead for Re-Education Through Labor
Chinese and foreign observers welcomed the recent announcement that the Chinese government will “abolish”—not merely reform—the administrative punishment system known as re-education through labor (RTL). The proclamation, part of a sixty-point...
Chinese Literature Online
In July of last year, Brixton, U.K.-based novelist Zelda Rhiando won the inaugural Kidwell-e Ebook Award. The award was billed as “the...
Chinese Admiral to U.S. Navy: ‘We Will Block You’
On December 5, the U.S. missile-carrying cruiser Cowpens almost collided with a Chinese ship in international waters. The Cowpens was...