Huang Zhijie, the executive editor of Watching Media and a popular self-media blogger, has resurfaced after disappearing from social media for six months when one of his posts curried enough anonymous threats to himself and his...
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
In the Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Page takes an in-depth look at Xi Jinping’s turn toward...
At McClatchy DC, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Perhat Khaliq, a Uyghur musician now in the middle of...
McClatchy’s Stuart Leavenworth reports from Weifang, Shandong, China’s kite capitol,...
At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to...
Didi Kirsten Tatlow at The New York Times reports that some elderly people in Anhui have committed...
As part of a continuing series on urbanization in China, Ian Johnson reports for The New York...
In a follow-up to a recent New York Times article at Sinosphere, Ian Johnson notes the role of...
After being banned during the Cultural Revolution, cricket fighting (斗蟋蟀), a traditional Chinese...
Teng He of Tea Leaf Nation writes that the Chinese masses have revived imperial-era phrases to...
Evie Liu at CNN gives a brief sketch of a small village in northeastern China where falconry is still a common practice among local men: In China’s Jilin province, the tiny rural community of Ying Tun — known here as...
Reuters covers State Administration of Religious Affairs director Wang Zuoan’s position on the importance of discouraging “superstitious” religious belief and promoting scientifically informed knowledge, as he...
While the Communist Party has long-excluded religion from its vision for China, some Chinese officials and common people still hold on to rather feudal beliefs. The well-known author, Yu Hua, tells stories on the New York Times:...
In Behind the Red Door, Richard Burger examines various aspects of sex in China, both throughout history and in the resurgence of sexual freedom currently underway. From Mara Hvistendahl at Los Angeles Review of Books: [… T]he...
Last Friday, audiences at the Metropolitan Museum enjoyed an abridged version of a well-known piece of Kunqu, the oldest form of Chinese opera: ‘The Peony Pavilion’. From James R. Oestreich’s review at the New...
Starting from the reinvention of Dashilar, a historical neighborhood in Beijing, innovative architects are racking their brains to balance city development and cultural preservation. From Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore at The Los...
China has updated the ’24 Filial Exemplars’, an ancient morality text, to promote filial piety among the new generation. From Tania Branigan at The Guardian: The original 24 Filial Exemplars date from around the 14th...
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