When general Constantino Guveya Chiwenga, head of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), was on his way to China in early November, his vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa was being unceremoniously dismissed from the government and the ruling ZANU-PF party.
What implications did Trump’s trip have for the U.S.-China-Taiwan triangle?
There is a saying — “When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there” — and it perfectly sums up the contrast between China’s President Xi Jinping and President Trump.
On July 27, 2017, China’s three major telecommunications companies radically changed the way calls are made. They removed long-distance fees charged to cell phones when calling from one province to another. The Paper celebrated the day with a gallery of archival images of cellphone use and advertisements.
To celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of The People’s Liberation Army, The Paper published an album of undated archival propaganda images.
Wang Quanming had a problem. The Spring Festival was approaching and the 30-year-old once again didn’t have a girlfriend to bring home to Fujian province where his mom expects him to “settle down.” Wang met Zhao Yuqing, a recent law graduate, when he saw her ad offering an instant partner, somebody to present to relatives during the new year holiday. Wang brought her home and introduced her as his girlfriend.
Editor’s note: Xiao is the Visuals Editor of ChinaFile.
The Hu Line is an imaginary line crossing diagonally through China and marking a vast demographic, environmental, and political divide between the west/northwest and east/southeast. Just four percent of the country’s population inhabits the land west of the line, while 96 percent live to its east.
Ye Jianbin (left) and An Hui have been a couple for nine years. In 2014, they became fathers to fraternal triplets born in Hong Kong. Feng Zhonghao documents the life of the nuclear family living in Shenzhen, from the closeness of the parent-child relationships to the looks of wonder and judgment from strangers on streets where gay partnership—let alone gay parenting—is seldom publicly acknowledged.
Pet pampering in China is on the rise as people pour more of themselves into strengthening their relationships with their four-legged friends. Wu Jiaxiang traveled around Beijing capturing many of the perks of pets who have landed in the lap of luxury, including gourmet meals and tailored exercise routines. In the photo above, breeder Yang Ling shows one of her many prize-winning chow chows. Together, they’ve accrued three homes in Beijing. But she tells her son not to think about living in any of them: they are for her dogs.
Photographer Wu Hao traveled 20 minutes southwest of New Delhi to Gurgaon (officially called Gurugram), where he found Chinese entrepreneurs living and working in a district of modern shopping malls they’d nicknamed “Gurgaon Sanlitun,” after the well-known glass and steel Sanlitun pedestrian shopping mall in Beijing.
