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,...
President Xi Jinping’s unannounced visit to Beijing’s Qingfeng Steamed Bun Restaurant...
Reuters reports that Australian bicyclist Michael Rogers blames contaminated food he ate in China...
Reuters reports that, since mid-November, over 600,000 tons of U.S. corn shipments have been...
The Globe and Mail reports on Fortune Cookie, an expat owned American-style Chinese restaurant...
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