‘Warcraft’ Marches Past $200M, ‘Finding Dory’ Debuts to Solid $17.5M
Warcraft is experiencing the big-splash, big-crash pattern followed by nearly every Hollywood tentpole in China this year.
Hundreds of Residents of South China 'Rebel' Village Protest, Poised for Showdown
Villagers called for the return of seized land and the release of a former protest leader who was elected village chief in 2012.
Hong Kong Leader Vows Action After Bookseller Recounts Ordeal in China
The incidents have raised concerns that Chinese authorities violated the “one country, two systems” formula.
Liverpool Takeover: State-Backed Chinese Group Want to Buy Club From Fenway For £700m
The group, SinoFortone, has already explored the potential of building a new stadium in the dockland area of Liverpool.
China Axes Taiwanese Children's Choir Trip
China has axed a visit by a popular Taiwanese children's choir after they sang the national anthem at the inauguration of the island's new president.
Disney's China Fairytale Begins With $5.5 Billion Park Opening
The park is a bet on China's middle class and booming domestic tourism.
Books
06.15.16
Street of Eternal Happiness
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city’s sleek skyline a brighter future and a chance to rewrite their destinies. There’s Zhao, whose path from factory floor to shopkeeper is sidetracked by her desperate measures to ensure a better future for her sons.
China Says Dalai Lama-Obama Meeting Will Damage Bilateral Ties
The Tibetan, Buddhist spiritual leader is considered a dangerous separatist....
Dogs and Cats Rescued Ahead of China Dog Meat Festival
11 million people worldwide sign a petion that rescues a total of 34 animals....
190 Chinese LGBT Groups Condemn Orlando Club Shooting
China’s activists join the global fight for equality....
This Man Was Sectioned For Being Gay. Now He’s Fighting Back
Man files suit for homophobic maltreatment within a mental institution....
Inside the World of China's Ultra Rich
Kevin K Li, director of reality show Ultra Rich Asian Girls, speaks to Al Jazeera about China's wealthiest 1 percent.
Animal Advocates Call for End to Dog Meat Festival in China
Festival proponents defend the practice as an expression of cultural heritage and argue that eating dogs is no different from eating cows or turkeys.
China’s Factory to the World Is in a Race to Survive
President Xi wants Guangdong to set an example in his goal of moving away from the cheap-labor export model to an innovation-and-consumption-based one.
Controversial Television Ad Prompts Outrage Across China
'Most Chinese people have never been around a foreigner,' says the creator of a viral video that criticized the ad.
In China, Homeowners Find Themselves in a Land of Doubt
All land in China is owned by the government, which parcels it out to developers and homeowners through 20- to 70-year leases.
The China Africa Project
06.01.16
Online Outrage Over Racist Chinese Ad Says a Lot About How China and the West React to Racism
The company behind the racist Chinese laundry detergent ad that sparked widespread online outrage around the world issued a...
Depth of Field
05.31.16
Families, Weddings, and Beekeepers
from Yuanjin PhotoThis month’s Depth of Field column brings the stories of Chinese adoption; the marriage ceremony of Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin, a gay couple who filed the first civil rights marriage lawsuit to be accepted by a Chinese court (...
The China Africa Project
05.26.16
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Chinese in Africa But Were Too Afraid to Ask
The Chinese presence in Africa has been so sudden and so all-encompassing that it’s left a lot of people confused. Chinese farmers now compete for space and customers in Lusaka’s open-air markets, Chinese textiles are undercutting...
The NYRB China Archive
05.26.16
The Heritage of a Great Man
from New York Review of BooksWhy did communism grow deep roots and survive in China, while it withered and died in Russia? This is one of the central questions of modern history. A plausible answer to the question is that communism in China resonated with the...
Viewpoint
05.24.16
“It’s Time for Us To Set a New Political Agenda for Hong Kong”
Last month, midway through a whirlwind tour of United States universities, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong took a break for a crab cake and mac-and-cheese lunch at a Manhattan brasserie. Wong, 19, came to international...
My Time as a Fake Boyfriend to China's 'Leftover Women'
As Chinese women face stigma for remaining unmarried past their late 20s, the boyfriends for rent business is booming.
China’s Middle Class Vents Over Growing List of Grievances
A father’s death in custody is the latest incident to fuel urbanites’ sense of unease.
Media
05.19.16
Backward Thinking about Orientalism and Chinese Characters
For those of us who teach and research the Chinese language, it is often difficult to describe how the Chinese characters function in conveying meaning and sound, and it’s always a particular challenge to explain how the writing...
Media
05.18.16
My Uncle Was a Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution—He Isn’t Sorry
Lishui is the nickname for my uncle, a farmer who has lived all his life in the suburbs of Tianjin, a big city in northeastern China. Whenever people talk about Lishui, my mother’s older brother, they always say: “Lishui is a nice...
Books
05.18.16
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China’s political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation.
Family of Activist Who Died in Police Custody Files Complaint Alleging Abuse
Lei Yang was arrested on a charge of soliciting a prostitute in early May; less than an hour later he was dead.
China Breaks Official Silence on Cultural Revolution's 'Decade of Calamity'
Communist party’s decision not to address the anniversary until 24 hours after it had passed underlined its discomfort.
Real-Estate Lawsuits Surge in China
Undelivered homes drive some buyers to sue while developers seek refunds on land.
China's Middle-Class Anxieties
They get that the cause of their various discontents is the one-party system, but they also appreciate that the system underwrites their comfortable lives.
Undaunted By China's Rulebook, Lesbian Couple Has Twins Via Surrogacy
Chinese women Rui Cai and Cleo Wu gave birth to twins last month, following a successful in-vitro fertilization.
China to Relocate Two Million People in Bid to Tackle Poverty
People from poverty-stricken communities are relocated to more developed urban areas as part of a wide-ranging plan to tackle poverty.
China Faces Its Own Version of Trumpism
Appeal of die-hard Maoists to the downtrodden puts Communist Party in a bind.
In Sichuan Province, an Artisan Retreats to China’s Past
Hanshan, an ethnic Miao, survives by selling the clothing he dyes to the same people he considers too materialistic.
Sinica Podcast
05.09.16
The Cultural Revolution at Fifty
from Sinica PodcastFifty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, inaugurating a decade of political turmoil with his calls for young people to “bombard the headquarters.” In this special live edition of our podcast recorded at The...
Controversy Sparked Online by ‘Red Songs’ at Concert in Beijing
Music from the turbulent period of the Cultural Revolution was featured prominently at event at the Great Hall of the People.
Conversation
05.05.16
How Should Global Stakeholders Respond to China’s New NGO Management Law?
A new law gives broad powers to China’s police in regulating and surveilling the activities of foreign NGOs in China. The law would require foreign groups including foundations, charities, advocacy organizations, and academic exchange programs to...
Books
05.05.16
Alibaba
In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and Presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China’s booming private sector and the gatekeeper to hundreds of millions of middle class consumers.
Baidu Should Have Even Higher Standards Than Google, Because It's All China's Citizens Have
Many believe Baidu's claims that it performs strict due diligence before accepting ads.
Reinventing China's Abortion Police
Family planning officers were trained for new jobs as teachers of parents and grandparents how to develop toddlers' minds by talking, singing and reading to them.
Postcard
05.05.16
If China Builds It, Will the Arab World Come?
In May 2016, the Emirates airline inaugurated its new direct service to the Chinese city of Yinchuan. Yinchuan joins...
U.S. Diplomat’s Same-Sex Marriage Causes Stir in China
Hanscom Smith, the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, marrying Eric Lu in San Francisco has generated interest in China.
The China Africa Project
05.04.16
Race, Culture, and the Politics of Being Black in China
Being black in China is not easy, but it’s not as bad as many would have you think, according to our two guests this week, who are both black immigrants currently living in Beijing. Sure, people stare a lot and there are often some inappropriate...
Video of Beatings Amid Demolition in China Leads to Official Reprisals
Officers wearing law enforcement uniforms brandishing clubs, striking women and children cowering at the foot of a wall.
Ilham Tohti, Uighur Scholar Jailed in China, Is Nominated for Rights Award
He was chosen by the Martin Ennals Foundation for trying to promote dialogue in the troubled Xinjiang region of China.
China Close to Passing Strict Law on Foreign Groups
A new law that would strictly control thousands of foreign nongovernmental organizations in China is on its way.
China Homeowners Live in Legal Limbo
Wenzhou case underscores uncertainty over land leases in country where government owns all the land.
The Spy Who Loved Me? Chinese Warned Off Dating Foreigners
A poster widely displayed across Beijing tells the story of a female civil servant who is wooed by a foreign spy posing as a visiting scholar.
China Internet Star Papi Jiang Promises 'Corrections' after Reprimand
One of China's biggest internet stars Papi Jiang has promised to "correct" herself, following warnings from government officials.
China Prepares To Widen Global Campaign Against Taiwanese Fraudsters
On Friday 52 more people on deck to return home to Taiwan from Malaysia had come under the same pressure from Beijing.
Sinica Podcast
04.19.16
Public Opinion with Chinese Characteristics
from Sinica PodcastThe immense popularity of social media has afforded China watchers a terrific window onto public opinion in China. In recent years, a slew of English-language websites have emerged to interpret the various trends and phenomena, discourse, and...
China’s Real Estate Conundrum: The Big Property Bubble vs. Ghost Towns
China is suffering from a glut of real estate development, the result of a massive boom in construction.
China Bans Rich Kids From TV So They Can’t Embarrass Their Parents or the State
Their hedonistic antics of some younger members of China's elite are thought to have no place amid a national austerity drive.
Caixin Media
04.18.16
Chinese Electric Vehicle Manufacturer BYD’s Image Hurt by Scandal Involving Dealer’s Suicide
China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD Auto Co., is under intense scrutiny following the death of a Nanjing auto dealer who accused the company of bilking a government subsidy program and a Caixin probe suggesting the...