Prime Minister Li Keqiang's refusal to endorse a massive plan promoting city growth reveals a dilemma at the heart of the country's economic future.
'The father of the new president -- he was a close friend, and a fine man..'
Greg Baker/AP
Despite a still-thriving economy, university graduates struggle to overcome an employment market increasingly skewed to the well-born and the well-connected.
Eleanor Moseman
Photographer Eleanor Moseman shows the daily lives of a people native the Xinjiang region, whom the country's majority population tends to treat with suspicion.
Susan Walsh/AP
A leading scholar discusses an economic shift that will change China -- and the world.
Carlos Barria/Reuters
A survey of single women in China reveals a growing fear of men with too many family obligations.
AP
Why the state-run media opposes the planned mission to the Red Planet.
Jeff Chiu/AP
China's latest food scandal comes from soil pollution -- and this time, there's no easy solution.
Wong Campion/Reuters
Recent protests in Kunming reveal an increasing consciousness of environmental rights in the country. But do they threaten the Communist Party's grip on power?
Musadeq Sadeq/AP
Beijing is keen to increase its involvement in the country following the planned U.S. withdrawal in 2014. But security problems may interfere.
Wong Campion/Reuters
As its recent experience in Kunming shows, Beijing can handle environmental protests. But is this approach sustainable in the long term?
LA Theatre Works
Documenting an infamous episode in U.S. history, the play is showing for the second time in three years.
Broad Group
A Chinese firm is planning to build a skyscraper in the middle of an empty field as part of a new "vertical city".
Busan International Film Festival
Urbanization has lowered a once-high suicide rate. But life is still hard.
Aly Song/Reuters
As it turns out, quite a lot. The latest in an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.
Carlos Barria/Reuters
Economic growth has raised living standards throughout the country -- but stress levels have risen too.
A fast-growing country is doing a lot wrong -- and right.
The perils of the journalism biz, chapter 12,712.
Lee Jin-Man/Reuters
A statement by Osaka's mayor defending so-called "comfort women" reignites Chinese grievances.
Jason Lee/Reuters
Most of the thousands who died in Sichuan's 2008 earthquake were just kids. A new documentary profiles how families permitted to have another child are trying to recover.
AP
Now an observer member of the Arctic Council, Beijing seeks a new opportunity to cut shipping costs ... and get at the ocean's fish stocks.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
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