“Dozens of mainlanders were taken away by the police because they openly supported Occupy Central and at least ten of them have been detained…They are in Jiangxi, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, etc,” Hong Kong-based blogger and journalist Annie Zhang posted on her Facebook page on October 1, the 65th National Day of the People’s Republic.
A resident of Kowloon holds flags for the People's Republic of China while he screams at student democracy protesters to “get out,” in the Mongkok neighborhood, October 3, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong celebrities are known for their omnipresence and outspokenness, but the city's galaxy of stars and starlets has been almost entirely out of sight during the pro-democracy sit-ins.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping hug each other, June 29, 1987 in Beijing, after signing an agreement between China and the Carter Center’s Global 2000 program.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and China’s paramount leader Deng Xiaoping hug each other, June 29, 1987 in Beijing, after signing an agreement between China and the Carter Center’s Global 2000 program.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping take a walk at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 8, 2013.
Wong How Man is a U.S.-educated former journalist who began working in China in 1974 and has been involved in minority regions of China for decades. He was involved in student demonstrations during the Vietnam War.
This past July, Shanghai’s Huangpu River—known for more than a few incidents involving dead floating pigs—played host to artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s ark-like menagerie of decrepit animals, “The Ninth Wave.” The vessel was destined for the Power Station of Art, a renovated power plant and China’s first state-funded contemporary art museum
This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser are pleased to be joined by Sascha Matuszak, a Chengdu-based expert on Chinese martial arts and the producer of a new documentary on Chinese MMA (mixed martial arts), a competitive tournament series where competitors combine different styles from varying schools of combat in a frenzied quest to pummel their opponents into submission.
The U.N. Climate Summit 2014 in New York last week passed, as expected, with public statements of intent but no sign of firm commitments to reducing climate emissions.
If a deal is to be reached in Paris next year, at the latest “last hope” climate summit, expectations for progress are pinned on prospects of an initial agreement between the world’s two largest emitters: China and the U.S.
