From revenge spending to riverside skateboarding, here’s what people have been up to since Shanghai’s lockdown was lifted As the clock struck midnight on June 1, the lockdown in Shanghai was ...
Unique Finds at Hong Kong’s First and Last Hand-painted Porcelain Factory Canton porcelain, also known as Guangcai, originated in Guangdong province and is one of the best known types of Chinese ...
Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what's going on? Toward the end of every year, when China’s magazines, newspapers, and online ...
A pro-Hong Kong police meme created by Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily has gone viral in part due to support from an unlikely corner: clout rappers A meme calling the protests currently ...
In 1793, the British diplomat Lord George Macartney nearly scuttled his trade mission when he famously refused to kowtow to the Qianlong Emperor. When representatives from the Qing court informed ...
This weekend, as Beijing emerged from its post-Spring Festival torpor, the Chinese Communist Party decided it would be a good time to mess with everyone by casually dropping a hint that we all better ...
It can be difficult to convey the broad sweep of China’s history in six hours. More than one professor has struggled — even when given a whole semester of lectures — to properly tell the story from ...
Across Chinese social media, millennials are bellowing a widespread battlecry. The target? Marriage, and the prospect of having kids. It began with a post from state media outlet People’s Daily on the ...
While we wait for the final denouement of this month’s Party Congress here in Beijing, what is striking to me is not that Xi is making history, but that his ideas are set to fundamentally alter the ...
One of China's best-known science fiction writers wants to showcase the country's diversity - as long as he can stay out of idol fan flame wars Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chen, is a man of ...
The 40th anniversary of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 went largely unnoticed in China, but not so in Vietnam I’ve traveled quite a bit through Southeast Asia this winter. It is evident views of ...
A US administration looking to score points with nativist know-nothings on the back of vulnerable immigrants. A newly assertive China led by a government frightened of change but eager to appease a ...