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Zhang Yimou’s third adaptation of a work by Geling Yan, who is uncredited in the film after being ‘cancelled’ for criticising Xi Jinping’s policies, is deeply personal for the director – but deviates from his original vision.

Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial Chinas people, who could only imagine...

As President Vladimir Putins unpopular, costly and deadly war on Ukraine drags on, Russias industrial oligarchs have been dying in droves.

Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain.

With the Chinese stock market in turmoil earlier this month, Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, wrote about the dramatic crash for The Guardian: “Why China’s Stock Market Bubble Was Always Bound To Burst.” Schell was one of the first American journalists to chronicle China’s stock markets. Here’s a piece he wrote with Todd Lappin for

The so-called 'Festival of Brexit', funded by taxpayers to the tune of £120m, is infested with woke events about gender and imperialism.

By now, it has been nearly forty years since the Cultural Revolution officially ended, yet in China, considering the magnitude and significance of the event, it has remained a poorly examined, under-documented subject. Official archives are off-limits. Serious books on the period, whether comprehensive histories, in-depth analyses, or detailed personal memoirs, are remarkably

The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. With a groundswell of mass support, both men rebelled against the established order in their respective countries and set about throwing the world into confusion. Both share an

Commentary The Book and its culture often define a society. The Chinese saying goes that "inside the book ...

Finalist #15 in the Book Review Contest