Xi Jinping Visit: Chinese Leader Given Ceremonial Welcome
China's President Xi Jinping is receiving a ceremonial welcome by the Queen as he begins the first full day of his visit to the UK.
The 11 Deadliest Places to Drive
More than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents every year across the world.
Feminism With Chinese Characteristics
China is making progress on women’s issues, but anyone trying to publicize remaining issues faces a serious backlash.
Here’s Why Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ Differs Radically From the American Dream
Xi’s Chinese Dream is protean.
In a Region Disturbed by Ethnic Tensions, China Keeps Tight Lid on a Massacre
Armed with only knives, the assailants struck at the coal mine in the dead of night.
Prince William to Give Ivory Trade Speech as China's President Xi Arrives
The Duke of Cambridge is to deliver a speech on the illegal ivory trade for broadcast on Chinese state TV.
A Remote Corner of China Wants Access to the Sea. The Obstacle Is North Korea.
You can almost smell the sea air from here, at the point where China, Russia and North Korea meet.
China to Build $5 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in Indonesia
China Railway International Co. Ltd and a consortium of Indonesian state companies will build the rail line from Jakarta to Bandung.
This Is Where China’s Future Will Be Decided
Lanzhou, China — The first thing you notice is the dust.
Taiwan Prepares For Turmoil As China Watches Its Elections From Afar
The basic question before voters in next year’s poll is whether they will still exist as a country.
Ai Weiwei Memoir Coming in Spring 2017
Crown Publishing Group announced that it will publish a memoir by the artist in the spring of 2017.
Culture Shock: Chinese Ministry Slammed on Not-so-Social Media
Watch the country’s culture ministry get eviscerated on social media.
Vietnam Accuses Chinese Vessel of Sinking Fishing Boat
Vietnam said that a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank one of its fishing boats near disputed islands in the South China Sea.
China's Xiaomi's Is Changing the U.S. Too
Xiaomi is the most important phone manufacturer you've never heard of.
Ancient Teeth Found in China Challenge Modern Human Migration Theory
Scientists in southern China have discovered human teeth dating back at least 80,000 years.
The Chinese Oscar Winner that Wasn’t
Wolf Totem is a spectacular film, but its soul is missing. That's just how Beijing wants it.
China Tightens TV Censorship after Cleavage Controversies
New rules may require some Chinese shows to delay broadcasts by as much as six months.
Survivors Tell the Camera the Hidden Tale of China's Great Famine
When Li Yaqin was 16, she ate what her family could scavenge.
China’s Middle Class Has Overtaken the U.S.’s to Become the World’s Largest
China has crossed another economic threshold.
'Hunting' for China at the Democratic Debate
Jim Webb wanted to talk China.The rest of the candidates? Not so much.
A Land China Loves and Hates
The Chinese hostility to America is first and foremost the result of government propaganda.
How A 16-Year-Old Found Himself Caught Up in China’s Latest Crackdown
He is not a lawyer, or a dissident. He is a 16-year-old with a bowl-cut fringe.
'A Brighter Future Beckons': China Tries to Get Xinjiang to Join the Party
Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
Escalator Death in China Heightens Safety Concerns
A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
China Opens Communist Party Theme Park
Who needs Disneyland when you can have a theme park for youngsters to declare their loyalty to China's Communist Party?
When Palace Museum Meets Creativity
In the minds of most people, Emperor and his concubines lived their lives solemnly.
China Turns Firepower to Soft Power to Try to Win Tiny Taiwan-held Island
"In Kinmen, we can do what Taiwan can't, what Taiwan doesn't dare do."
Chinese Hospitals Still Offering Gay 'Cure' Therapy, Film Reveals
Channel 4’s Unreported World finds doctors prescribing drugs and electric shocks to gay men and lesbians despite Beijing legalising homosexuality in 1997.
Wartime Sex Slaves at the Heart of UN Battle Between Japan and China
Both countries have submitted competing nominations for inclusion in Unesco’s Memory of the World programme.
Culture
10.07.15
Jia Zhangke on Finding Freedom in China on Film
Jia Zhangke is among the most celebrated filmmakers China has ever produced—outside of China. His 2013 film, A Touch of Sin, a weaving-...
Yes, He Can: Sichuan’s Answer to Barack Obama Cashes in on His Moment in the Sun
A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.
A Year on, Mixed Views on What Hong Kong Protests Achieved
"Has the Umbrella Movement accomplished anything? If so, what?"
Once Seed Was Planted, Chinese Headwear Fad Grew Like Weeds
Across China, grown-ups are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
Dalai Lama: China More Concerned About Future Dalai Lamas Than I Am
"I have no concern," he told Amanpour in London, adding that it is "possible" he would be the last Dalai Lama.
The Chinese Government Is Cranking Up the Nationalism After Its Nobel Win
In a way, the Nobel honor is a double-whammy for the Chinese government’s nationalist agenda.
Putting the Past Behind in China
The days of China’s relying on export manufacturing and infrastructure construction as drivers of economic growth are gone.
How hard does China work?
A look at the realities of working life in China, following Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that Britons need to work as hard as the Chinese.
China’s Xi Jinping Changes the Odds in Macau
If there’s one skill that the U.S. gambling moguls who staked their futures here have mastered it’s calculating the odds.
HK Fined By Fifa For Fans Booing Chinese Anthem
The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) has been fined $40,000 Hong Kong dollars ($5,160; £3,400) by Fifa.
Japan's Abe Says TPP Would Have Strategic Significance If China Joined
"It would contribute largely to our nation's security and Asia-Pacific regional stability, if China joined the system in the future."
Youyou Tu: How Mao’s Challenge to Malaria Pioneer Led to Nobel Prize
Tasked in 1969 with finding a cure for malaria, China’s first laureate in medicine looked to nature and traditional medicine.
Seven Dead, 223 Injured as Tornadoes Brought by Typhoon Mujigae Ravage China’s Guangdong Province
Mujigae was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in at least six decades.
A Painting of China’s First Lady, Before a Rise to Stardom
On the exhibition notes, the painting of Peng Liyuan by Jin Shangyi is identified only as “a well-known singer.”
China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril
Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects of previous economic model.
Sinica Podcast
10.05.15
Edmund Backhouse in the Long View of History
from Sinica PodcastEdmund 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...
Culture
10.02.15
In Zhang Yimou’s ‘Coming Home’ History is Muted But Not Silent
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...
More Working Women in China Freeze Their Eggs
Government limits fertility treatment, so career-focused women turn to U.S. for help in having babies.
Gay Couples in China Look Abroad to Start a Family
Xu Zhe decided a few years ago that he wanted to get married and have a baby—typical life plans for a young man in China.
Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan.
China’s Butler Boom
On a recent morning at a butler-training school in Chengdu, China,;lessons began at 8 A.M.,with an exercise in “opening the villa.”
Troubles for the ‘China Model’
Meritocracy has worked for Beijing, but to survive, the system needs more openness.
Suspect in China Parcel Bombings Died in Explosion, Police Say
Wei Yinyong, 33, a local man previously named as a suspect, was identified following DNA tests.
Gay Subway Proposal an Internet Hit in China
Attitudes towards gay rights are gradually shifting in China. Two decades ago, gay couples could face arrest under sodomy laws.
America’s Biggest Competitor Really Isn’t China
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids
The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country.
On China’s National Day, Hong Kong Protesters Say That They Are Not Part of China
Small groups of protesters waved the blue colonial flag.
China’s Latest Ally in Its Crackdown on Religion: The Pope
This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Pope Francis missed each other on their back-to-back visits to the United States.