...I’ve been in China for almost 10 years. I came here under very bad circumstances. I was one of those people the guide refers to ...
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (AP) -- China's president called for faster reconstruction during a visit to the devastated Sichuan province where many victims of May's massive ...
ZHUCHENG, Dec. 30 (Guardian) -- China claims to have found the world's biggest deposit of dinosaur bones in the old city of Zhucheng in Shandong ...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- China vowed here on Sunday to further its pragmatic cooperation with Kuwait in the various fields in a bid ...
Reporting from Foshan, China -- The last time his parents saw Liao Mengjun alive, he was heading to school to pick up his junior high ...
Megan Shank talks to John Liu about his ambitious films:
Filmmaker John D. Liu believes we have a solution to climate change, but it’s not as ...
The answer to PRI's Geo Quiz for the 26th is China, and the famous Zheng He is part of the explanation. ...
Pirates, earthquake, economy, taiwan, pandas, winter, santa, dancing, drinking... ...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by parents of 58 children crushed to death when their school collapsed during May's ...
A two-year-old pig named Zhu Jianqiang, or Strong Pig, was named Animal of the Year by the Chinese press for surviving beneath earthquake rubble for ...
(WSJ) -- The new edition of Foreign Affairs magazine has a pair of articles about the global financial mess that carry these disturbing headlines: "A ...
YA'AN (AFP) - - A pair of giant pandas made their last public appearance in China on Monday ahead of their long-anticipated departure to Taiwan, ...
BEIJING (AFP) - - China plans to set up a special police division to tackle organised crime and gang-related violence as the global economic crisis ...
Students in my Blogging China class at the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism conducted an email interview with Qi Hanting, the founder of the ...
Danwei notices the IHT having a hard time with human flesh searches:
In June 2006, United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was talking about network neutrality; ...
SHANGHAI (中国日报) - A woman who made a video of herself performing sex acts and then uploaded it to the Internet has been detained, the ...
A Chinese rendition of the Dreidel Song ...
Adam Minter on how blogs have replaced papers as required reading in China:
Earlier this week, Jim Fallows - via his blog - reported and broke ...
Besides being a writer, single malt aficionado, and bigwig at a PR firm, Kaiser Kuo has been rocking in Beijing for a over a decade, ...
The colourful life of Yoshiko Yamaguchi, also known as Li Xianglan, Ri Koran and Shirley Yamaguchi, would seem to be a gift for a writer. ...
BEIJING - Some Chinese people believe in a version of the American dream – work hard, and you will be rewarded. Work very hard, and ...
Reporting from Beijing -- The student with shaggy hair hanging low over his eyes, his head pulled turtle-like into a leather jacket, was plainly embarrassed ...
HONG KONG (NYT) — Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting ...
TIANJIN, China (USA Today) — Alonzo Bland is spending the holiday season at a Chinese fat farm. The Green Bay, Wis., native will miss his ...
A sports fan on Yao Ming. ...
A blogger offers a cynical take on Chinese Internet users. ...
Perry Link answers the question:
How will the Obama presidency approach China? Two especially big questions stand out, and those two are related.
One question is whether ...
HONG KONG (NYT) — The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Web sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games ...
Hula hoop texting. Acid attack. Mao auditions. BBC blocked. Gong Li returns. Syllabus in question. Taiwan flights. Emissions cuts. Grad Jobs. Hope for economy. Cars ...
In a minor skirmish in the history wars, or what might be called “ashes diplomacy,” Chinese authorities finally allowed the ashes of America’s last ambassador ...
“The longest recorded piece of graffiti was painted by a student in the toilets of his college, Changsha, China, in 1915. It consisted of over ...
Blogger Jonna is frustrated at language-switchers, and wonders if it is safe to travel alone in China as a girl:
... It sort of makes me ...
Michael Manning, webmaster of The Opposite End of China, deals with an irate Chinese reader:
Somebody really, really cares about me! And he's been nice enough ...
Liu Xiaobo, one of the signatories of Charter 08, has been in detention since Dec. 8, probably in connection with that document. Here's a brief ...
On Robert Silvers and the mission of the NYRB. ...
China’s new National Energy Administration (NEA), established in March 2008, is the PRC government’s latest attempt to create an effective national-level energy institution. Periodic restructurings ...
Ten days before Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing to attend the G20 Summit hosted by President George W. Bush in Washington on November 15 ...
(Guardian) -- Many Chinese cities have raced to the top, vying with each other to build the tallest and shiniest skyscrapers. Hangzhou is going in ...
PRI on one of China's biggest environmental challenges:
Decades of clearing forests, overusing water resources, and climate change have brought desert conditions to what was once ...
Reporting from Beijing (LAT) -- The signs of discontent are small but unnerving in an authoritarian country where public demonstrations are not permitted.
Laid-off toy company ...
Blogger Ran Yunfei, one of the signatories of Charter 08, has a post translated to English at the Guardian:
The 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration ...
James Panero gives a good look at China's contemporary arts:
The art world success of Zhang Huan makes a compelling story, the postmodern Horatio Alger myth ...
(The Times) --- A leading dissident who organised a charter signed by hundreds of Chinese thinkers, academics and writers calling for dramatic political and legal ...
The New York Review of Books publishes a full translation of the Charter 08 Document that has already resulted in arrests in China:
The following text ...
China's blogs and online forums have reacted in different ways to the official indignation over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dаlаi Lаmа.
Boycotts, which ...
How the Max Planck Institute mistook a Chinese smut ad for poetry:
The Max Planck Institute is one of the world's leading science and technology research ...
BEIJING (NYT) — Chinese exports registered their largest drop in nearly a decade last month, suggesting that the global recession could be far worse than ...
A letter to the editor disputes some statements from the original NYRB article:
Eliot Weinberger makes some important factual errors in his essay on T'ang dynasty ...
CHINA'S most liberal newspaper stable is undergoing yet another "reshuffle" of editors, in what insiders say is a fresh purge at the behest of propaganda ...
A look at a different sort of human flesh search engine target: the missing person. ...
BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese authorities are probing charges that a city in the east of the country locked up citizens in mental hospitals to prevent ...
BEIJING (NYT) -- Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers, and all manner of muckraking citizens ...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has been put in charge of drafting a document to spell out how to check North Korea's declaration of its nuclear ...
(AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy has praised China as "one of the greats of the world" and insisted that he "always thought there was only ...
Reporting from Shanghai -- Caravans of cash-rich Chinese in Hummers and Lincoln Navigators have been weaving through American neighborhoods in recent months, looking for foreclosures ...
Protests and unrest as the slowing economy hits China hard:
An eerie quiet has descended on the world's factory, especially in places where machines are suddenly ...
James Fallows presents Gao Xiqing, one of the men behind China's money:
AMERICANS KNOW THAT China has financed much of their nation’s public and private debt. ...
Safe-sex classes for prostitutes are a growing trend around China. Now, some sex-workers are taking prophylactic oaths. ...
(FT) -- The US was lectured about its economic fragilities on Thursday as senior Chinese officials urged the administration to stabilise its economy, boost its ...
Reporting from Shanghai -- For two decades Chinese officials and Walt Disney Co. have batted around ideas for a theme park in the eastern fringes ...
You've probably heard that tests are a big deal in China, and thus test prep is big business. This applies even to such "un-gameable" forms ...
LESHAN, China -- Ten days after his daughter died in May's earthquake, Zhu Jianming thought of having another child. Five weeks later, he had a ...
In much of the world, President Nicolas Sarkozy enjoys a reputation for being something of a diplomatic dynamo. In China, the energetic French leader has ...
CMP's Rebecca MacKinnon does some crack research on Chinese blog censorship:
On Thursday this past week, Beijing-based lawyer-blogger Liu Xiaoyuan won Deutsche Welle's annual prize for ...
TIME's Simon Elegant probes the significance of recent taxi strikes and China's efforts to control information:
Another day, another strike. But this isn't France or India. ...
Teacher Yang Shuqin's personal statement about the two students who accused him of criticizing the government. ...
A July profile of Kai Da factory, location of Wednesday's worker riots, called it a "Model Chinese Factory":
"The Kai Da factory in Dongguan City (unrelated ...
Peter Ford adds to the discussion of China's "Human Flesh Search Engines":
BEIJING - Some call it a weapon in the hands of a righteous army, ...
Bill Marx interviews poet David Hinton on translating classic Chinese literature:
"The wonderfully rich volume features nearly 500 poems from the first three millennia of verse ...
DONGGUAN, China (AP) — About 200 protesters on Wednesday stormed the gates of a toy factory in southern China that supplies U.S. toy maker Hasbro ...
BEIJING: China has executed a businessman convicted of bilking thousands of investors out of $416 million in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, state media reported Thursday.
The ...
