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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei walks by his work "Life Cycle", a migrants' boat made of bamboo, during a press preview of his new exhibition "Rapture" in Lisbon, Portugal
Arts, Culture & Media
A new memoir by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei honors his father’s poetry and politics
A large auditorium is shown filled with people in color-coordinated clothing with Chinese President Xi Jinping projected on a large screen in the distance.
Business, Economics and Jobs
China chases ‘rejuvenation’ with control of tycoons, society
Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed on a screen as performers dance at a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing
Education
China’s Xi Jinping Thought curricula teaches students how to ‘unmask enemies’ of the state, author says
Performers form a yellow number 100 at a gala show full of red ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing
Global Politics
Massive celebrations planned for 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China
Mae Salong
Conflict & Justice
They were CIA-backed Chinese rebels. Now you’re invited to their once-secret hideaway.
A crowd of activists holds candles in Hong Kong at night.
Conflict & Justice
Chinese students and workers are uniting again, 30 years after Tiananmen Square crackdown
A man leans over a table covered in dozens of identical little red books
A little yellow book full of Xi Jinping quotes is the new version of Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’
Con Artist, Iron Fists, Talib Kweli
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A man poses for pictures in front of souvenir plates featuring portraits of former and current Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping and the late Chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Feb. 26, 2018.
Global Politics
China sets stage for Xi to stay in office indefinitely
When it comes to running China, the most powerful officials in government are probably the members of the Politburo Standing Committee, lining up here for the news media at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 25, 2017. But the man with the
Global Politics
One of the most powerful men on Earth just got more powerful
China's President Xi Jinping claps after his speech as he and other new Politburo Standing Committee members meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct. 25, 2017.
Global Politics
Xi’s grip on China tightens with new term and no heir in sight
Mary Kay Magistad (left),host of the Whose Century Is It? podcast, with Ian Johnson, author of "The Souls of China," and Jennifer Lin, author of "Shanghai Faithful," at The Mechanics Institute in San Francisco.
Soul searching in China
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Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dons cowboy hat during his 1979 US visit, at the start of a new era in US-China relations
China, the US and the lessons of history
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Protesters stand on a bridge as they block the main street to the financial Central district outside of the government headquarters building in Hong Kong on September 30, 2014.
Global Politics
In central Hong Kong, the protest movement keeps growing
Temple and cemetery of Confucius.
Culture
Name the city in China where Confucius lived?
An apartment where Mao Zedong lived briefly in Shanghai has been opened as a small museum. It sits in the middle of the Jing An Kerry Center, which features glassy office towers and upscale retail.
Development & Education
You can find Mao’s old apartment inside a mall in Shanghai
An apartment where Mao Zedong lived briefly in Shanghai has been opened as a small museum. It sits in the middle of the Jing An Kerry Center, which features glassy office towers and upscale retail.
Development & Education
You can find Mao’s old apartment inside a mall in Shanghai
Global Scan
Mexican youth are telling the government to keep its hands off their cell phone signals
Global Scan
Mexican youth are telling the government to keep its hands off their cell phone signals
Bian Zhongyun's children mourn the death of their mother, as seen in the documentary "Though I am Gone." Bian was a school principal who beaten to death 1968 by a crowd.
Global Politics
How to apologize for the Cultural Revolution without blaming the Communist Party
Bian Zhongyun's children mourn the death of their mother, as seen in the documentary "Though I am Gone." Bian was a school principal who beaten to death 1968 by a crowd.
Global Politics
How to apologize for the Cultural Revolution without blaming the Communist Party
At a Beijing theme restaurant called 'Red Classic', you can re-live the Cultural Revolution every week.
Arts, Culture & Media
How do you say you’re sorry for taking part in China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’?
Gu Hangyu, sits with his grandmother Wang Yufang, at her home on Chongming Island near Shanghai. She speaks the Chongming dialect, but not standard Chinese.
Development & Education
Hundreds of millions of Chinese stubbornly resist speaking the ‘common tongue’
Some of the ruins at Yuanmingyuan in Beijing.
Conflict & Justice
Ruins in Beijing help explain why the Chinese are so wary of the west
Global Scan
What would global cartoonists do without US spying revelations?
Global Politics
In China, propaganda remains expansive, but more hidden
Communist Party political drama unfolds on the Internet for millions of Chinese to see
Health & Medicine
China’s far-from universal health care
Development & Education
Rapid urbanization in Beijing
What the Developing World Can Teach Us about Economic Growth
Global Politics
China’s Evolving Propaganda: From a Benevolent Mao Zedong to Today’s Slick Machine
Global Politics
Bidding Lea Heuy To Cambodia’s Controversial King
Arts, Culture & Media
Shanghai Trend Turns Bomb Shelters Into Hip Social Spaces
Conflict & Justice
China’s Social Media Reacts Over Growing Political Scandal
Arts, Culture & Media
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in China
Global Politics
China’s fight against ‘radical thought’
Global Politics
Meeting of the grandchildren
Environment
China’s first foray into space
Arts, Culture & Media
Chinese novels