State Media Unveils Premier Li’s Wife For First Time
Reuters reports that Chinese state media has for the first time published the photograph...
by Natalie Ornell | May 6, 2014
Reuters reports that Chinese state media has for the first time published the photograph...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 15, 2013
Asahi Shimbun’s Nozomi Hayashi reports that both supporters and critics of fallen Chongqing...
by Scott Greene | Nov 29, 2012
NPR’s Louisa Lim profiles Peng Liyuan – the wife of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping, one of China’s most famous singers, and an AIDS activist – and explores whether she will pull out of the public spotlight...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 22, 2012
As a famous singer and goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation, Peng Liyuan might seem a perfect first lady to China’s next president Xi Jinping. But this picture is complicated by an AIDS scandal involving...
by Scott Greene | Jun 27, 2012
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports that disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai has denied involvement in or knowledge of the events surrounding the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, according to a...
by Wendy Qian | Jun 26, 2012
Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking, writes for Foreign Policy on perception of women in Chinese politics: Sadly, “dragon ladies” are an all-too-familiar trope in Chinese history: A successful man achieves...
by Sophia Cao | Dec 11, 2006
Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing walking together in a countryside, via wenxuecity.com