Seven Tibetan Self-Immolations Hit China in One Week
on October 28, 2012
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire protesting Beijing's hardline rule, a rights group said.
In China, 'Mad Men' Reflects Reality of Modern Life
on October 28, 2012
The 1960s-driven TV drama resonates with ambitious young Chinese professionals.
Below-Belt Blows in Kungfu Restaurant Battle
on October 26, 2012
The crestfallen former chairman of fast-food restaurant giant Kungfu Catering Management Co. Ltd. is awaiting a verdict after a trial on corporate embezzlement charges apparently instigated by his former business partner’s wife.
If Cai Dabiao is found guilty in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District Court, where his trial August 31 and September 30 followed more than 500 days of police detention, he’ll be stripped of stakes in a successful company he co-founded with Pan Yuhai in 2004.
Myanmar Envy
China’s Netizens Eye New Press Freedoms Next Door
on October 26, 2012
Chinese netizens’ reactions to tentative democratic reforms in neighboring Myanmar, including to the recent repeal of censorship rules for private publishers by the Southeast Asian nation’s reformist government, reflect just how closely it’s possible for average Chinese to follow—and criticize—international relations even when their own access to information about the outside world is limited by the state-controlled press.
China Condemns NYTimes Wen Jiabao Wealth Story as 'Smear'
on October 26, 2012
Beijing said the report that Wen's family has "controlled ... at least $2.7bn" had "ulterior motives."
Party Congress Preview
on October 26, 2012
With less than two weeks to go before the Eighteenth Party Congress, speculation on China’s upcoming leadership transition could not be more intense here in Beijing, where insiders are trading lists of potential Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) members which disagree not only on who will be elevated to the highest ranks of China’s leadership, but even how many members will be on the PBSC.
China Paves Way for Prosecuting Disgraced Politician Bo Xilai
on October 25, 2012
China's parliament has expelled disgraced former senior politician Bo Xilai, Xinhua said, paving the way for formal criminal charges.
Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
on October 25, 2012
Wen Jiabao's son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership.
Who Was Mao Zedong?
on October 25, 2012
In Kashgar’s largest bazaar a few years ago, I spotted a pencil holder sporting an iconic Cultural Revolution image: Mao Zedong and Marshal Lin Biao smiling together. But Mao’s personally chosen heir apparent had been a nonperson since 1971, when he allegedly godfathered an abortive plot to kill the Chairman and then died a traitor in a plane crash, fleeing to the Soviet Union. Why had Lin popped up again on the remote Xinjiang frontier? Did this pencil jar (which I snapped up without bargaining) have some political significance?
Growth
on October 24, 2012
The photographer James Whitlow Delano says he finds beauty in melancholy. For more than two decades, he has sought it out around the edges of the often ebullient story of China’s economic rise.
