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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