Tag: china

“Go home and pray to be forgiven,” she cried. “If you don’t pray now, you know what waits for you.”

Life in a Chinese artists’ colony through the eyes of the local taxi driver

They arrived when the sea was swelling, threatening to sweep the old world back with it.

Pankaj Mishra’s new book, From the Ruins of Empire: The intellectuals who remade Asia, has one eye on the history of the East and one eye on its future.

Will China-Japan-U.S. tensions in the Pacific ignite a conflict and sink the global economy?

Sure, forced abortions are oppressive, but so is not being able to breathe.

Barnard & Guernica show a film that shows contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a cabbie.

China’s voracious appetite for resources isn’t something to be feared—it should be emulated.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is now as notorious for his political actions as for his work. Alison Klayman’s new documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, shows that his originality comes precisely from combining the two.

The Pentagon’s system of overseas bases is evolving, and a new model for warfare is evolving with it.

American Nurse became our possession, the Party headquarters in Beijing told us, for only a week before Deng decided what to do with her

Could Richard Nixon hold the keys to fixing the Obama administration’s Iran problems?

Banned in China and avoided by the American media, the Falun Gong movement turns twenty.

A fabulist film highlights the absurdity of breakneck-paced development, and its relevance inside and outside of China.

Dissident Wuer Kaixi talks about fellow activist Chen Guangcheng, his own attempt to return to China, and his continued hope for “counter-talk” with the regime that exiled him.

The U.S. is pursuing serious multilateral sanctions against Iran, and this isn’t the first time.

Whatever song they’re singing / It’s not Tiananmen

I am drawn to this raw urban landscape, which hovers between collapse and regeneration, decay and possibility.

12 Photographs

On the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, the student leader made famous for scolding the premier in his hospital gown discusses life in exile, guilt over the students’ deaths, and how his movement was a mere first step toward greater political freedom in China.

“What I learned from him was that you could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing.”