China’s seemingly relentless growth already makes it a voracious consumer of raw materials, energy and commodities. Now it’s after brainpower.
With research funding and teaching opportunities drying up at home, young Western …
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As Bo Xilai Goes to Trial, Disgraced Chinese Official Still Has His Fans
Once a rising star in China’s Communist firmament, disgraced party official Bo Xilai is set to go on trial Thursday on charges of corruption and abuse of power. The scandal that toppled him from the halls of power shook China’s political establishment and has already led to the imprisonment of his wife. But in the Chinese megacity of …
China’s Emerging Civil Society Prompts Fresh Media Crackdowns
Together with his neighbors, journalist Chen Baocheng had been involved in a long-running land-confiscation dispute with the local authorities in Pingdu, a city of about 1.3 million people in the northeastern Chinese province of …
What the Word Toad Can Tell You About China’s Modernization
In a recently televised broadcast of Chinese Character Dictation Conference — China’s equivalent of a spelling bee — the nation’s best and brightest were asked to write, in its traditional form, a word that stumped 70% of …
It’s the Chinese Sex and the City, so Where’s the Sex?
With the pace of Chinese modernization reaching exponential rates, you could be forgiven for thinking that the traditions surrounding love and relationships are morphing just as fast as the country’s urban skylines. And it …
Illegal Rooftop Villa in Beijing Reveals China’s Culture of Impunity
It was an abode worthy of a James Bond villain, but was ultimately bested by a foe slightly less charismatic than the British secret agent — Chinese planning regulations. The faux-rock villa complete with trees, patios and …
Q&A: Alison Klayman, Director of the First Full-Length Film on Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei
Vice Doesn’t Pay: 10 Scandalous Chinese Officials Who Landed With a Bump
The fate of former Communist Party high-flyer Bo Xilai indicates that rampant corruption is slowly being tackled in China
China’s Shoddy State-Run Airlines Leave Grounded Passengers Flying Into a Rage
It’s the perennial headache for airlines anywhere — quickly herding hundreds of passengers onboard, getting them out of the aisles, into their safety belts and making sure that the plane takes off for its destination on time. …
How a Beige Book Could Shed Light on China’s Shadow Economy
China’s economy has grown at such an astonishing rate over the past 30 years that even economists have hailed it as a “miracle.” GDP has grown by an annual average of 10% since 1979, effectively doubling in size every eight …
How Corruption Blights China’s Health Care System
The anxious Chinese woman wanted to ensure that her mother would receive the best care during her upcoming gall-bladder surgery. So the woman, surnamed Cheng, cornered the dean of surgery at a hospital in eastern China’s Anhui …
As A Disgraced Chinese Politician is Indicted, Rights Activists Also Feel the Law’s Wrath
An Airport Bomber in China Becomes an Unlikely Recipient of Online Sympathy
A crazed man detonates an explosive at a busy international airport. We think we know the story line: a suicide bomber surely, a twisted faith perhaps, scattered limbs of innocent passersby adding to a global death count. But the …