For college students in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, it was a brief moment of freedom: a short-lived craze for cycling overnight on ride-share rental bikes to the nearby city of Kaifeng for a bit of fun, food, and...
It is well known that many Chinese local governments are cash-strapped, burdened by excessive debt, and searching for ways to replenish their depleted coffers. Reports abound of local governments, utilities, and even police...
Over a whirlwind two weeks of diplomacy in Beijing, China has sought to strengthen its ties to both the United States and Russia—a difficult balancing act. Xi Jinping took a phone call with U.S. President Joe Biden last week...
Explaining a meme often takes the wind out of a joke’s sails. Not so in this case. A recent Xi Jinping quote published by Xinhua, China’s official state news agency, has breathed new life into a long-running meme...
Mao Anying, Mao Zedong’s son, was killed by American bombers on November 25, 1950 while fighting in the Korean War. A persistent, unfounded, rumor (officially tagged as “historically nihilist”) holds that the younger Mao gave...
Toys riffing on China’s hottest online idiom, “calling a rat a duck,” were yanked from online shelves this past week, a sign of the idiom’s continued political sensitivity. The tongue-in-cheek saying “calling a rat a duck”...
Hunger is becoming a common side-effect of China’s often chaotic lockdowns. During a citywide pandemic lockdown in Xi’an, residents went hungry as government propagandists cheered “noodles helping noodles.” During the...
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the...
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
Professor Zhang Fusuo of China Agricultural University led a team of researchers to successfully...
As China faces the latest in a long line of food safety scandals, Nicola Twilley writes at The New...
Yum Brands Inc.—the parent company that owns KFC, McDonald’s, and Pizza Hut—has faced its...
Yulin, a southern city in China, kicked off its annual dog-eating festival over the weekend amid a...
China Real Time’s Chuin-Wei Yap reports the Chinese agriculture ministry’s rebuttal of...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Amid heated GMO politics and grain espionage debates, agricultural minister Han Changfu expressed...
After a manager at an Iowa research farm caught a group of men from China digging up the field for...
The South Korean government wants China to change its name for kimchi, Victor Mair notes at Slate,...
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