Three American citizens detained in China were returned to the U.S., the White House announced on Wednesday. The move coincided with the release of four Chinese citizens detained in the U.S. The de facto prisoner swap also...
In a rare event on Monday, the Chinese government has freed an American citizen who it had detained for nearly 20 years. The citizen, David Lin, was a pastor who was born in China and then lived in California, where he has now...
Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after leaving China in 2021 when his teaching contract was abruptly terminated. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a series of reflections on Hessler’s...
“Sandy” Phan Phan-Gillis, a Vietnam-born American citizen of Chinese descent, was...
One of the many interviewees in the recent Human Rights Watch report outlining the continued use...
Since Occupy Central and student protesters began their ongoing round of demonstrations nearly six...
NPR’s All Things Considered tells the story of Stuart Foster, an American sociology...
U.S. businessman Vincent Wu, who has been detained in China since 2012, stood trial in Guangzhou...
Ron Gluckman profiles Richard Robinson, a serial entrepreneur who gave up his globetrotting...
This summer, things went badly wrong for a group of US college students taking part in the South China Internship Program to gain real-world working experience related to their majors. Their experience serves as a warning to...
After a friend and fellow longtime China Hand in Beijing complained about the treatment of American companies in China, calling the shenanigans the worst he has ever seen, Forbes contributor Janet Carmosky asks “two...
A Chinese-American businessman, Vincent Wu, is facing criminal charges in China after a business dispute with Lin Qiang, a former provincial security official. Andrew Jacobs at New York Times reports: That confrontation is...
At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun’s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). Having travelled to Beijing for his mother’s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently...
For The Browser’s Five Books series of recommended readings, Alec Ash talks to Orville Schell about the past and present of Sino-US relations, and asks how America can most effectively influence China in the future....
Small and medium sized American factories are already losing out to China in a big way. A new Reuters article asks a intriguing question: How should America deal with its China problem? The best answer, they suggest, is to...
Mark Seldon blogs in a series titled “My First Trip to China”. Read his blog in the Hong Kong Economic journal here: I was a fellow traveler in the 1972 Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars trip to China with Richard Bernstein...
From New York Times: As more Americans go to mainland China to take jobs, more Chinese and Americans are working side by side. These cross-cultural partnerships, while beneficial in many ways, are also highlighting tensions that...
China hopes that the Olympic Games will bring more American college students to China. From the Washington Post: There are almost certainly at least 10,000 U.S. students now enrolled annually in programs in China, up fivefold...
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