When Liang Yang was a baby in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, he lost much of his hearing. Nevertheless, Liang followed his brother’s interest in boxing. Today, Liang competes in regular boxing matches against others in his 200-pound weight class. Liang is trying to be a professional in a sport in which very few people who are hard of hearing compete. He fights on Fridays with the hopes of being noticed by other professional fighters.
Daoqing opera is popular among villagers in some of the poorest areas in northern Shaanxi province. It traces its roots to the Taoist belief system and evolved from Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) storytelling traditions. Li Jianzeng’s images take us to the countryside and behind the scenes to the lives of the performers.
Gender reassignment surgery is legal in China, but remains taboo and controversial in much of society. Photographer Xiong San first started covering the transgender community after meeting a health worker in Shenyang, Liaoning province, in 2014. Xiong captured images of 30-year-old transgender club dancer Xiao Xia in her personal relationships, and in strained moments with her family.
The “Two Sessions,” China’s annual political meetings, take place in conference rooms across Beijing from the Great Hall of People in Tiananmen Square to five-star hotels near the Fifth Ring Road. Photographer Zhao Di takes us to those places from which the general public is barred, offering us a fresh angle at which to view China’s politics by putting himself in the shoes of delegates who might hope for a room with a view when they must withstand long meetings.
Who’s to say if working as a fashion model when you’re underage in China counts as an extracurricular activity or a form of child labor? What is sure is that it’s lucrative. And popular: In May, about 150,000 families will take part in a catwalk competition. Wu Yue’s video and photos take us inside the largely unregulated industry.
Since their beginning in 2005, Confucius Institutes (CIs) have been set up to teach Chinese language classes in more than 100 American colleges and universities, including large and substantial institutions like Rutgers University, the State Universities of New York at Binghamton and Albany, Purdue, Emory, Stanford, and others. In addition, there are now about 500 sister programs, known as “Confucius Classrooms,” teaching Chinese in primary and secondary schools from Texas to Massachusetts.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday (Apr 27) there was no point protesting Chinese artificial island building in disputed areas of the South China Sea because it could not be stopped.
The Belt and Road Initiative is a very positive project that helps boost sustainable economic development in the world, especially in ill-connected Asia, a former U.S. diplomat has said.
A cybersecurity firm in the United States believes state-sponsored Chinese hackers were trying to infiltrate an organization with connections to a U.S.-built missile system in South Korea that Beijing firmly opposes.
Jack Ma announced on Tuesday that Alibaba will host a two-day conference in Detroit in June to teach U.S. businesses how to sell to the company’s 443 million customers in China on the world’s biggest e-commerce site.
