Two zodiac sculptures stolen from the Old Summer Palace by British and French troops in 1860 will return to China later this year. The animal heads, cast in the mid-18th Century, inspired a set of replicas by artist Ai Weiwei...
Read MoreThe New York Times’ Martin Fackler reports fears that Chinese air pollution is harming forests on the remote island of Yakushima in southern Japan. The island, a UNESCO World Heritage site, inspired the forest setting for...
Read MoreThey have served as crucibles for the country’s online culture and as schools and sanctuaries for its marginalized migrant workers. But according to a new report from the Ministry of Culture, China’s Internet cafés...
Read MoreOn Monday last week, The Diplomat’s Harry Kazianis wrote that the value of China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier remains, for now, mostly symbolic: As our own Naval Diplomat noted, several months back: “Carriers...
Read MoreLuxury watchmakers, who have in recent years seen massive sales growth in the Chinese market, have since last summer seen that growth stifled. While President Xi Jinping’s campaign to cleanup corruption and crack down...
Read MoreThe April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon hit the community of Chinese living in the U.S. especially hard. Of the three fatalities, one was Boston University graduate student Lü Lingzi from Shenyang. It has now been revealed...
Read MoreWhen something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Read MoreCCTV America, the Washington-based affiliate of state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), began airing English-language programs in February of 2012. NPR reports on CCTV America’s timely entrance into the U.S....
Read MoreAfter California Governor Jerry Brown led a delegation to China earlier this month in a effort to stimulate economic interaction – and especially Chinese FDI in California, Truman National Security Project fellow Dean...
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Verified Sina Weibo user @孙小波0105 recently posted this notice. He self-identifies as the...
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: It is forbidden to carry negative news, analysis, or commentary on the...
Read MoreXinhua reports that the disastrous impact of the earthquake that struck Ya’an prefecture, Sichuan province on April 20 will likely have little lasting effect on China’s economy: “From what we have learnt from...
Read MoreJiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...
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