This year’s 36th anniversary commemorations of the June 4 crackdown were marked by intense, AI-aided censorship on the Chinese internet, muted memorials and arrests in Hong Kong, and a wide variety of online and offline...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s late-night declaration of martial law—and the immense pushback from lawmakers and the public that forced him to rescind the order—has been the talk of the Chinese internet. Online...
Photographer Xu Yong has published a book of images taken during the protest movement of 1989, but...
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an...
In a new series of videos, That’s Beijing traces the proposed route of Beijing’s 900...
Global Times reports that high-end photography gear has become a sign of officials’ illicit...
China’s family planning policy, better known in the West as the one-child policy, was...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
ChinaFile has posted a slideshow of photos by Guillaume Herbaut of wedding photography sessions, a...
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She...
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog presents 40 recent images of China, from homemade robots...
Chinese officials’ sensitivity about appearance has only intensified since sharp-eyed netizens started bringing down officials caught wearing—or even not wearing—luxury watches and other incriminating baubles. Such visible...
At Panos Pictures (via Howard French), a set of 63 photographs by Kacper Kowalski shows Chinese industry, agriculture, communities and development from the air: ‘The person who coined the term cityscape must have had China...
At The Atlantic, American documentary photographer Michael Steverson unveils a photo essay on the ancient yet dying Chinese art of cormorant fishing, featuring two elderly brothers who supplement their income from fishing by...
Petapixel’s Eric Calouro talks to AP photojournalist Jeff Widener, whose iconic and sometimes parodied ‘Tank Man’ photograph has, he says, “been a blessing and a curse”: Basically it’s a lucky shot...
Outside Magazine has published a slideshow of photos by Phil Borges from his new book, Tibet: Culture on the Edge. The book documents Tibet as it confronts the triple threat of, “global warming, development, and cultural...
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