What China's Talking About Today: A Mayor Kisses His Town's Steel Contract
Mayor Wang Zhongbing got a little carried away when his town was awarded a contract to produce steel and iron.… More »
Mayor Wang Zhongbing got a little carried away when his town was awarded a contract to produce steel and iron.… More »
Half a century after the famine that killed perhaps 30 million people, censors have quietly loosened their ban and citizens are moving past the taboo. Why now?… More »
A new U.S. policy that restricts Confucius Institutes starts a debate about China's influence abroad.… More »
When officials spent billions of yuan to blanket Qingdao with pricey foliage, citizens fought back online.… More »
Web users fume over Chinese fishermen held hostage by North Koreans, another turn in a complex relationship going back to the Korean War.… More »
The Chinese national identity has long been tied up with its language, for natives and foreigners alike.… More »
Chen Guangcheng's decision to take shelter in the U.S. embassy extends a modern tradition in China of seeing America as an idealized alternative to their own system.… More »
China's ultra-popular, Twitter-like service moves too fast for censors or propagandists to keep up, but it's changing more than just the spread of information.… More »
As Chinese students flood private American high schools, aided by high-priced "consultants," they are changing concepts of success and security back home, and leading ambitious schools to seek out more of the eager (and often full-paying) mainlanders.… More »
Long before the NBA arrived, missionaries, revolutionaries, and communists helped make the game ubiquitous here.… More »
Alienated and struggling to get by in China's big cities, migrant workers brave chaotic lines and difficult journeys for a chance to reconnect with what they left back home.… More »
Christianity's most important holiday is a big event here, but state regulation of religion and a suspicion of all things Western can sometimes get in the way. And, yes, it's too commercialized.… More »
The way Americans talk about China can often seem hostile, frustrating, or altogether irreconcilable with the world as a newcomer from China knows it… More »
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