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New Analysis A plane crash in China that is believed to have killed all 132 people onboard has ...

Earlier this week, Chinese Internet services blocked searches for the phrase mìshū bāng (秘书帮). Roughly translated as “secretaries gang,” the term relates to the speculation surrounding government probes into public officials linked to former security czar and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, who is reportedly under investigation for corruption.

At a classroom screening of North Country at a US university in October, students were startled to find their Chinese-born teacher sobbing uncontrollably. Little did they know that the film — based on the woman who won the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States —had struck a personal chord with He Qian, 33, an Oklahoma State University...

Over the past two months, the relationship between China’s estimated 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people, most of whom follow some form of Sunni Islam, and the majority Han population has deteriorated after a series of violent incidents allegedly involving knife-wielding Uighurs in inland China. The bloodiest incident was the March 1 attack in southern Yunnan

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a brilliant sci-fi novel that says so much more about the recent past than it ever did about the future. It was

Yuan Ling is a border-crosser: between village and city, academia and journalism, mainstream and underground—a writer who is sometimes censored but usually measured (or ambiguous) enough to be published in China.

In recent weeks, China has announced a series of measures to further regulate online entertainment, including a crackdown on so-called "fandom culture" and new curbs on online gaming. But a push in the state media last week against a popular...

Divorce: Court orders husband to pay ex-wife £5,500 for five years as fee for housework

Will Beijingers accept a bottle opening fee? It’s a familiar concept for Western diners: Restaurants may choose to charge a corkage fee for any beverage that patrons bring in themselves, the idea being that the venue can still profit from playing host even if the party forgoes the purchase of alcohol. But in China, where diners are used to bringing in their own bottles of baijiu or wine and opening them free of charge, the idea just doesn’t sit well. Thus, when a reporter at Beijing Dail...