...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 as having “mismanaged his life back home.” The truth is ...
Reporting from Foshan, China -- The last time his parents saw Liao Mengjun alive, he was heading to school to pick up his junior high school diploma.
A few hours later, they were called to the ...
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 Anti-CNN website. The site was founded in the wake of ...
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. Born in Manchuria in 1920, of Japanese parentage, she first ...
BEIJING - Some Chinese people believe in a version of the American dream – work hard, and you will be rewarded. Work very hard, and you'll be a star. When students at Beijing's Central Academy ...
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 by his ignorance.
Not until three months ago, when he got ...
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 an Obama administration can be the first in more than ...
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 to China before 1949, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1964), to be ...
“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 4,000 characters criticising his teachers and state of Chinese society. ...
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 miss Dalian where no one tried to talk to me ...
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 overview of some of the relevant legal issues, courtesy of ...
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 of China’s energy bureaucracy since 1949 have produced a series ...
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 (China Brief, November 7), Zhongnanhai released its first policy white ...
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 of Human Rights witnesses more human rights violations in China. ...
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 at the heart of contemporary Chinese art. Today, at the ...
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 of Charter 08, signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals and ...
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 culture and poetry (NYR, November 6).
First, and most importantly, there ...
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 officials.
The Southern Media group is constantly wrestling with officials who ...
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 and other bargain properties to buy.
With housing prices crashing ...
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 at a standstill. In Dongguan in southern China's Pearl River ...
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. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally ...
Reporting from Shanghai -- For two decades Chinese officials and Walt Disney Co. have batted around ideas for a theme park in the eastern fringes of Shanghai, only to see them go nowhere.
"People have always ...
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 reverse vasectomy, paying for it in part with money he ...
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 a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping ...
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. It's China. On Nov. 27, yet another Chinese city was ...
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 to the Kai Da Toy factory in Shenzhen) is certainly ...
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, forged so that wrongdoers might be smitten. Others say it ...
The FDA found traces of melamine in U.S. brands, but says they pose no risk:
Public health groups, consumer advocates and members of Congress blasted the Food and Drug Administration yesterday for failing to act after ...
Pop Matters' Brent Jensen tries to rescue Axl Rose from the critics:
W. Axl Rose is the consummate anti-hero. It would be easy to write him off as an eccentric, self-absorbed, embittered asshole, but there’s a ...
China Beat makes a list of China-related awards given this past year:
...In an attempt at a premature 2008 awards wrap-up, here are a few that you might have overlooked.
1. There was consternation from the Chinese ...
A look at the first time the 'Human Flesh Search Engines' brought down a central government official:
Reporting from Beijing -- The private eyes in China's most famous detective agency rarely sleep, are relentless in pursuing ...
For Wang Fei, the journey from high-flying advertising executive to jobless national hate figure began with an extramarital affair. His disgrace was absolute and immediate. Rarely is there any other outcome after one becomes a ...
Ethan Gutmann's account is notable for its first-person observations:
Bangkok
The jeepney driver sizes us up the minute we climb in. My research assistant is a healthy, young Israeli dude, so I must be the one with ...
A review of a recent book by Paul Theroux that relives a classic journey:
Theroux is not afraid to delve into the underbelly. He also remains acutely aware of how a culture can define itself by ...
An American reputation, tarnished by Mao, is officially restored:
SHANGHAI — On Aug. 2, 1949, with the Communists about to seize power in Beijing, the United States recalled its ambassador to China, John Leighton Stuart, ...
A bagel is one of the last things you'd expect to find in the kind of isolated regions where I travel in my work as a photographer of indigenous peoples -- which is a problem, ...
Shenzhen Daily gives an idea of what Chen Shui-bian can expect in prison:
FORMER Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian was formally arrested yesterday accused of money laundering. He is being held in prison awaiting trial.
According to ...
Slate's Christopher Beam gives background and explains the repercussions of recent Chinese cyber attacks:
Chinese hackers have breached the White House computer network on numerous occasions, the Financial Times reported Thursday. Officials believe the attacks ...
Many in China have nothing but admiration for America's new President-elect Barack Obama. Still, the Republicans were safe because they were predictable. With a Democrat in the White House, Beijing doesn't know what to expect.
he ...
Chinese students, store owners, and street cleaners reflect on Obama's win:
BEIJING (Reuters) - China welcomed Barack Obama as a youthful president-elect with the energy to tackle the financial crisis now threatening its economy and ...
Evan Osnos gives an intriguing glimpse into a few Chinese lives during the American election:
Election night in America is a breakfast affair in Beijing, and it unfolds as most of China is commuting to ...
China Beat collects some of the best writing they've found on China and the American election:
Chinese reactions to Obama's election range broadly, as exemplified in this morning's news coverage. Dominant themes include racial equality, ...
Author Yiyun Li argues that Eileen Chang's later writing suffered more for personal reasons than because of the Communist Revolution:
...As I reread Chinese writers of the first half of the twentieth century, I confront ...
THE CEO of Shenhua Energy takes an interview with PBS Frontline:
When people talk about China and coal, they think of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. What kind of plans do you have to ...
Profiles of Chinese affected by the world financial crisis:
WANG HAO, GEOLOGICAL ASSISTANT, MU COUNTY, TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION
I work for a copper exploration company, a joint venture run by a British mining firm and a ...
When China was open to the world:
All things foreign were the rage. Aristocrats learned to sit in chairs, the "barbarian beds." Dandies preferred to speak Turkish, and set up blue felt nomadic tents in ...
China's rekindled aspirations at sea:
In 2006 China Central Television showed a documentary series, Daguo Jueqi (The rise of great powers) (1), which was immediately successful. It included interviews with historians and international leaders and ...
A long excerpt from the Man Booker prize winning novel:
She explained a little. Apparently, sir, you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don't have entrepreneurs. And our nation, ...
Photographer Sam Leung, of Vancouver's The Province newspaper, toured China from January to March, and narrates a long slideshow of his trip:
"This gentleman is running in, I believe, minus 15 temperature... uh, I'm not ...
Beijing's impending shortage is "a dire water challenge," and China plans a massive response:
THE water level at Wangkuai Reservoir, one of the biggest in Hebei province, is close to an historic high—in a region ...
A new short story by Yiyun Li:
He was raised by his mother alone, as she was by her father. She wondered if his mother, who had set up their date, had told him about ...
How has Taiwan reinvigorated its military cooperation with the US and still become closer to mainland China?
UNDER Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan’s president for eight years from 2000, Taiwan saw markedly worse relations with both its ...
A new London exhibit of Chinese contemporary art inspires some pithy analysis, plus an interview with the curator Charles Saatchi:
As you go round the show you keep encountering Chairman Mao, popping up everywhere like ...
The Saatchi Gallery's exhibit on Chinese contemporary art, with previews of every artist's work:
Zhang Hontu grew up through both the Chinese Civil War and the ensuing Cultural Revolution before immigrating to New York in ...
Joshua Hammer reviews Ian Buruma's book, "The China Lover":
In Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, a teenage singer and actress named Yoshiko Yamaguchi rose to stardom in a series of propaganda films intended to celebrate ...
Atlantic senior editor Corby Kummer draws a straight line from China's food scares today to America's "Jungle" 100 years ago:
So far there's no evidence that U.S. products contain milk powder tainted with melamine, a ...
Don Lee writes about his own life in Shanghai amid food scares:
A friend here who frequently travels to Los Angeles returned to Shanghai last week with a suitcase stuffed with infant formula to give ...
An interview with Chinese lawyer Li Fangping:
SPIEGEL: Some provincial governments have allegedly instructed lawyers not to take on cases related to the powdered milk scandal. Will this inhibit your work?
Li: Such cases exist, and ...
A long look at American capitalists in Shanghai:
"Shanghai is a fifteen-hour flight from New York but so much farther.
Comiskey landed here for the first time in 2002, when he was working on his M.B.A. at ...
"'So,' he says, happily, 'you are one of my customers.' He fishes out one of the little bobbing cylinders with his finger and, shaking the water off, presents it to me as a gift.
I'm not ...
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 most powerful men on earth, Wen Jiabao, the prime minister ...
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 into a large group of paramilitary officers jogging in western ...
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 coming-out extravaganza of the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party ...
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 a local children's hospital for free testing as China's tainted-milk ...
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 450,000 liters of beer over the opening weekend. But folk ...
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 solidifying its position as only the third nation to launch ...
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 Jimandy Wu approached his wife with a business proposition: She ...
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. 'There's a greater difference between Americans and Japanese than Americans ...
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 learned that behind every building which fronts the street is ...
