Fareed Zakaria gets Premier Wen Jiabao's first TV interview in 5 years:
"But first, I also had the rare opportunity to meet with one of the ...
"HONG KONG - A Cadbury spokesman says preliminary results show its Chinese-made chocolates contain the industrial chemical melamine.
The spokesman said Monday it was too early ...
Chinese officials appear to have been caught in a Xinjiang cover-up:
"KASHGAR, China — Just days before the Olympic Games began in August, a truck plowed ...
The China Beat interviews historian Paul Cohen on the way historians deal with China:
"Paul Cohen: I liked Schell’s piece (which I read in the NYRB ...
A thorough tour through Yokohama's Chinatown:
"Like most Chinatowns, the entrance to Yokohama’s Chinatown is marked off by a large 牌坊 (pai2 fang1), with the characters ...
At the upcoming Plenum, party leaders will face 'contradictions within the people':
"For the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao leadership, the party is pretty much over. After the ...
"BEIJING — A Chinese astronaut orbiting the earth lifted himself out of the Shenzhou VII spacecraft Saturday afternoon and performed the nation’s first spacewalk, another ...
An authoritative analysis of the milk crisis to date:
"BEIJING -- Like thousands of other parents, Gu Yinghua took his child to the kidney unit of ...
Bavaria's Oktoberfest, Made in China:
"The Munich Oktoberfest, the annual showcase of Bavarian culture, got off to a rousing start with almost a million visitors downing ...
A look at how China's space program isn't cut from the old space race mold:
"Fifty years after the dawn of the Space Age, China is ...
Peter Ford discusses China's unions, past and present:
"Once upon a time, when the Chinese Communist Party was fighting for a revolution, the trade unions that ...
CCTV1's video of Shenzhou 7's launch, and a quick glimpse inside mission control. ...
Wet nurses are making a comeback:
"As news spread of the deadly taint of the industrial chemical melamine in China's milk supply last week, new father ...
Taiwan's CTi TV shows 3D animation of every step of the launch, spacewalk, and return to Earth, plus much more space coverage. ...
Taiwan's CTi TV (Cheng T'ien TV) gives a whirlwind wrap-up of pre-launch news, including analysis of articles from South China Morning Post, Agence France-Presse, and ...
Mary Kay Magistad looks at China's long road to space exploration:
"The Cultural Revolution was raging in the late 1960s when the first American walked ...
China Daily reports government findings that Sanlu hid knowledge of poisonous milk:
"BEIJING -- China's dairy giant, Sanlu, lied about its contaminated baby formula for months ...
A primer for 'getting by' almost anywhere in China:
"Maybe you picture China as a traditional Asian culture beholden to obscure rules of etiquette. Forget it. ...
A Reuters report shows telling scenes from China and offers summary and analysis:
"The position that China now finds itself in is a result of unscrupulous ...
Condé Nast Traveler's Emily Prager goes deep into the Shanghai behind and below the skyscrapers:
"I had lived in Shanghai for about two months when I ...
A seasoned reporter remembers the old Macau, and sees it now:
"I first visited Macau 30 years ago to report on criminal gangs called triads, then ...
Gourmet grub from the government's Special Food Supply Center:
"BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the ...
"The thirty-five-year-old father has no choice but to lock his son up with an iron chain beside the window, which has been going on for ...
Richard Spencer compares crises in China's public health and its environment:
"Life and politics would be much easier if everything was like a football match, where ...
"SHENZHEN, China (AFP) - A fire and subsequent stampede at a club in southern China killed 43 people and left 88 injured, state media said ...
"Anhui Province's Secretary for the Provincial Committee of the CPC sent his congratulations: Thanks, Hebei Sanlu for making poisoned milk powder. Kidney stones are worse ...
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"A team of traffic police on Taibai Road created a method to inspect forged or altered motor vehicle plates; some irregularities were corrected." ...
“Police are people, too.”
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"Thumbs up! Police are people, too. During down-time at work, resting for a bit, it's also understandable." ...
Shaolin monks: the sharpest weapon.
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"With so many foreign cheerleaders and their trouble-bags, they're afraid they would leave monastic life, so the Buddhist great master has forbidden it." ...
An original account by Steve Cotner, reconstructed from eyewitness testimony.
"The policeman asks questions for a long time about her intentions, about the nature of her ...
China cut interest rates and eased limits on lending:
"HONG KONG — After five years of tightening monetary policy to fight inflation, China abruptly reversed course ...
China's milk scandal is the tip of the iceberg in a crisis of ethics:
"BEIJING - As Chinese officials warned Tuesday that contaminated milk powder may ...
The US and China may be cooperating to destroy Internet privacy once and for all:
"In a move that has been condemned by privacy and human ...
A profile of the venerable blogger at ESWN:
"Meet Roland Soong.
His blog, EastSouthWestNorth, receives as many as 26 million hits a month and has been a ...
James Fallows writes about an ambitious project to modernize China's westernmost areas:
"The villagers' fundamental problem was their isolation. The Internet could solve that! Lin's branch ...
"After 16 years of consistent construction, the main body of Yangtze River Three Gorges hydropower complex has been preliminarily completed, said Ding Qihua, a senior ...
Eric Gordon responds to Ze Xia's letter in the Guardian:
"I do feel Ze Xia went over the top with her swingeing condemnation of the Chinese ...
Ze Xia's letter to the editor disagrees with an optimistic article in the Guardian:
"I am very disappointed to read the article by Fu Ying, the ...
Fu Ying, China's ambassador to the UK, boasts of a more open China:
"A question often raised after the Beijing Olympics is this: in what way ...
A landslide has led to many dead and missing, and changes in Party leadership:
"BEIJING (AFP) - The death toll from a landslide that engulfed a ...
A health ministry investigation will lead to punishment for producers of contaminated baby milk powder:
"BEIJING (AFP) - China on Friday vowed to punish those responsible ...
Diane Zhang, daughter of a Red Army officer, traces her own long march to know her father better:
"'In school they made it, you know, a ...
A roundup of Chinese illustrations of the impending Coke-Huiyuan deal:
"It's a reminder that western companies trying to acquire well-known Chinese brands are almost always behind ...
A round-up of front-page news in China involving cases of fraud:
"Police in Humen, Guangdong Province busted a fake beer producer yesterday, reports today's Dongguan Times. ...
A chart from The Economist showing where rich countries' immigrants are coming from:
"America is by far the most popular destination, taking 1.3m migrants. China provides ...
A fan shares video of his first paid show in China: a performance by Eli Sweet and a house dancer at a club in Guiyang, ...
A short video of American transplant Eli Sweet and Chinese rapper Coffee, performing and hanging out. ...
The energetic rapper Eli Stone, originally from Atlanta, enthuses about his life in China:
"One of the best things about living in China is there's always ...
UC Irvine prof. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom looks at the image-making tactics shared by Chinese and American political parties:
"When the media spotlight shifted instantaneously from Beijing ...
China announces an ambitious new space launch:
"BEIJING (AFP) — China's rulers are looking to catapult overflowing pride and patriotism from the Beijing Olympics into another ...
A look at the booming trend of art collection among a select crowd of Chinese artists and patrons:
"As recently as two years ago, few could ...
A slightly snarky look at prevailing attitudes toward China's up-and-coming space program:
"Many have dismissed the Chinese human space program as relying on outdated technology borrowed ...
A look inside an ancient religious site near Lhasa, Tibet:
"Tibetan Buddhists consider Drak Yerpa (pronounced sort of like 'tra-YER-ba') with its more than eighty meditation ...
CCTV 7 shows video of a remote facility where pre-launch tests demonstrate the safety of the Shenzhou 7 spaceship, which will carry the first three-person ...
CCTV 9 gives a brief preview of the planned spacewalk, China's first ever, with scenes of taikonauts practicing underwater. According to the anchor, "The spacewalk ...
Women in western China may no longer wear veils, and men may no longer grow beards. Such restrictions come despite little evidence that recent attacks ...
"'Cui Jian has always been right,' say his fans. Businesswomen wearing pearl necklaces, just the same as taxi drivers with Buddha figurines and bare chests, ...
The life of Bao Tong, a dissident and friend of the '89 students, still on the outs with China:
"Bao Tong, a former member of the ...
The Chinese government has admitted that poor school construction contributed the the casualty tally after May's earthquake:
"BEIJING — A Chinese government committee said Thursday that ...
A drug-addicted elephant has been rescued and rehabbed:
"A heroin addict elephant who was kept doped up with drug-laced bananas by animal smugglers will return home ...
"POLICE last night rescued a 12-year-old boy taken hostage by a man in a car at Anting Crossing on the Shanghai-Ningbo Expressway.
The suspect, surnamed Yang ...
After reading an article about Sidney Rittenberg, author Xujun Eberlein recalls her own personal story of him:
"Three years ago, after reading Rittenberg's book The Man ...
"His two grandparents were left paralyzed at the blood-inked spot for hours and refused to leave.
This was the fourth attempted suicide by a middle school ...
A slightly irreverent take on Mao's looming figure during the Games:
"'One can imagine Chiang Kaishek's ghost wandering around China today nodding in approval, while Mao's ...
The growing number of Han Chinese in China's West is bringing prosperity and unease to the area:
"But stroll around the shops and markets here in ...
The 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building, opened last weekend after 14 years of development. This video from Chinese television gives a walk-through. ...
"To show the world China's charisma and economic and technological strength, to a certain extent, reversed the prejudice of the world's people toward China... Most ...
China Comment gives an in-depth analysis of American presidential and vice presidential candidates' positions on China:
"McCain appears to have a balanced opinion in regards to ...
Bones and pottery from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties were damaged by railway construction workers:
"SHANGHAI (AFP) - - A Chinese construction company severely damaged relics ...
A 5.7 magnitude quake in Sichuan left thousands more homeless:
"BEIJING - Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest ...
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What it's like to be arrested by the Chinese government:
"The Chinese government was ruthlessly effective in quashing dissent during the Summer Olympics, but few noticed ...
Henry M. Paulson Jr. writes about the importance of friendly U.S.-Sino relations:
"The United States and China share many interests, but as is inevitable in any ...
Kurt Anderson sees promise in China's bold new architecture:
"Just as many of New York City's most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ...
China's role in ending the Doha talks may go against its own interests:
"On issues ranging from exchange rates to energy policy, foreign aid, and the ...
American economists compare China's path with Japan's:
"BEIJING (Reuters) - Now the Olympics are over, a new game is under way: telling China's economic future by ...
