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The first time I visited Tibet, in the fall of 1982, scars of the Maoist years were still plain to see: Buddhist wall paintings in temples and monasteries were scratched out or daubed with revolutionary slogans. Now that new winds are blowing, these offending daubs have been scrubbed out in their turn. Chinese were around then, though not in large numbers, and almost all of

The Chinese Communist regime pubished a report that claims Chinese young people are in love with Communism.

The Chinese Communist regime pubished a report that claims Chinese young people are in love with Communism.

“Deng was…a bloody dictator who, along with Mao, was responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people, thanks to the terrible social reforms and unprecedented famine of 1958–1962.” This is the conclusion of Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine’s biography of Deng Xiaoping, a book that, at last, shows him to be as violent and treacherous as his mentor and idol Mao

Children are separated from their parents for quarantine and residents lack food and medical care, amid a mental health crisis in Shanghai.

A doctor commits suicide after police interrogation in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.

China became part of my life when I met and married Edgar Snow. I had read Red Star Over China long before I knew the author but the years that followed were largely devoted to my acting career in New York. China was rather remote from Broadway. Through Ed, I developed close relationships with his friends and colleagues. Agnes Smedley showed me how to cook “oriental pilaf,”

Fordham Law School professor and regular ChinaFile contributor Carl Minzner says we've arrived at “China After the Reform Era,” a development that’s “not entirely bad” but also has a “dark side.” Minzner’s conclusions, excerpted below, come from a recent essay in the Journal of Democracy. —The Editors

Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.

OPINION: A new history of Hong Kong reveals a determined and duplicitous strategy.