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Noel CELIS / AFP / Getty; CNS / … Mourning Becomes China
Commemorations of the dearly departed are a licensed form of popular feeling that can make them dangerous moments for the Communist authorities.
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Xinhua News Agency / Getty / The Atlantic Why Are There No Biographies of Xi Jinping?
It is high time we have a better sense of what makes the autocratic, muscular-nationalist, order-obsessed strongman in charge of China tick.
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Claro Cortes / Reuters The Divides That Make Hong Kong and West Berlin
The two cities have had shared stresses, balancing radically different ideologies.
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Reuters Lessons From Moscow: How China Might Handle Hong Kong
Soviet experiences from decades past offer examples for what Beijing may do to quell protests in the city.
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Kin Cheung / AP The Infamous Date That Looms Over the Hong Kong Protests
The demonstrations have parallels to the Tiananmen Square protests, but the legacy of another event on June 4, 1989, could shape Hong Kong’s future.
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Aaron Tam / AFP / Getty Why 1984 Isn't Banned in China
Censorship in the country is more complicated than many Westerners imagine.
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Vincent Yu / AP The Death of Democracy in Hong Kong
Four years later, it’s clear that the reforms advocated by 2014’s youth-led, pro-democracy protest movement won’t take shape.
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'Strange Stones': Exploring Peter Hessler's China From the Ground Up
The American author, now based in Cairo, leaves behind an extraordinary collection of books limning the lives of ordinary Chinese people.
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The Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party: More Similar Than You Think
The two organizations, often at odds with each other, have a lot in common.
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China's Long History of Defying the Doomsayers
Losing legitimacy might not mean the end of the Communist Party. Past Chinese governments have survived worse.
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The Most Famous Chinese Blogger and Racecar Driver You've Never Heard Of
The 29-year-old Han Han is one of the most-read and consequential bloggers in China, maybe the world, so why is he so little-known in the West?
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A New Kind of Spectacle: How China Changed the Olympics
The world went into the 2008 games asking whether the Olympics would change China, but maybe it was the other way around.
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The American Who Stood Alongside Mao Zedong
A new film documents the life of Sidney Rittenberg, who joined, worked with the top leaders of, and was finally imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party.
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A Reporter's Revelatory Journey to 1990s China
The New Yorker's Peter Hessler describes what it was like to arrive in Beijing in 1994 and cover the changing country.
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Shanghai Noir: China's Long History of Crime Stories, Real and Fictional
Now a center of global commerce, the city was once so dangerous that its name was slang for "to kidnap."
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How China, the World's Oldest Marxist State, Proves Marx Wrong
Chinese history since the communist revolution has gone a little differently than its ideological father might have anticipated.
