China’s dissident writer was an exemplar of iconoclastic intellectual spirit, pursuing a more humane society despite state repression. A new biography draws the arc of...
Netizens on the Chinese internet have been using buzzwords and memes for decades, to express obliquely what they cannot directly. From the “river crab” to...
After decades of urbanization and economic development, a cohort of China's population is seeking rural refuge and personal development instead — moving back to the...
Educated, unmarried Chinese women have been dubbed “leftovers” by the state, who want them to focus on having children. Their independence is transforming China’s demographics...
A women’s rights activist, one of the “Feminist Five” detained by authorities in 2015, discusses a banned Chinese book about the lives of female factory...
Join us at Asia Society in New York to hear acclaimed journalist Barbara Demick discuss her new book, following the lives of Chinese twins separated at birth — and the extraordinary efforts to reunite them — in conversation with NPR correspondent Emily Feng.
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