Society

“Why can people who glory in color and fun and variety wear a uniform of boiler suits that brings drabness and dreariness to every gathering?”

Tighter licensing could further reduce amount of foreign content streamed in China.

“I had this great American dream that got broken.”

Last year 27,000 merchants joined and Alibaba’s sites grossed £6.1b.

On Sunday pollution readings were about 50 times higher than that considered safe by the World Health Organization.

“I felt winded. My stomach dropped. My eyebrows raised. I managed a small chuckle. Talk about feeling a mix of emotions.”

For decades, China has been engaged in a building boom of a scale that is hard to wrap your mind around.

In certain respects, a national credit system of some kind is long overdue in China.

Marvel's "mighty" superhero Ant-Man continued to punch above its weight at the Chinese box office, winning a second consecutive week.

China is losing interest in learning English, sending its proficiency in the global language of business falling ten places in a worldwide ranking.

Liu Lizhu was not aware her shy, 15-year-old son had been bullied at school until he ended up in hospital with a ruptured spleen.

Couples must continue to obey the country's one-child policy until the law changes in March.

The abandonment of the one-child policy in China is a momentous change.

China’s Communist Party brought to an end the decades-old “one child” policy.

Intrepid urbexers are wandering through the industrial wastelands of China.

It was to be my first parents meeting at Zhoushan’s most elite high school.

Women who smoke, drink and dress provocatively are more likely to be raped.

Hong Kong is home to the happiest people in Greater China, closely followed by Taiwan, according to Tencent.

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country’s economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies.

“No one is forcing anyone to accept ‘one wife, many husbands!’ ”

It was morning in the lakeside village of Luoshui here in southwestern China.

Under Mao, China promoted socialist equality for women, but the market-reform era has left many commodified in a country where mistress can be a career choice.

China's transformation from an agrarian economy remains a work in progress.

China's education system is robbing its young people of the chance to become unique individuals.

It may sound like a spendthrift’s dream vacation: being “forced to shop.”

More than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents every year across the world.

China is making progress on women’s issues, but anyone trying to publicize remaining issues faces a serious backlash.

Xi’s Chinese Dream is protean.

Lanzhou, China — The first thing you notice is the dust.

The basic question before voters in next year’s poll is whether they will still exist as a country.

Crown Publishing Group announced that it will publish a memoir by the artist in the spring of 2017.

Watch the country’s culture ministry get eviscerated on social media.

New rules may require some Chinese shows to delay broadcasts by as much as six months.

The Chinese hostility to America is first and foremost the result of government propaganda.

A 4-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an escalator at a subway station in the southwestern city of Chongqing.

Who needs Disneyland when you can have a theme park for youngsters to declare their loyalty to China's Communist Party?

In the minds of most people, Emperor and his concubines lived their lives solemnly.

Channel 4’s Unreported World finds doctors prescribing drugs and electric shocks to gay men and lesbians despite Beijing legalising homosexuality in 1997.

A man from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been making a living by looking like US President Barack Obama.

"Has the Umbrella Movement accomplished anything? If so, what?"

Across China, grown-ups are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers.

The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) has been fined $40,000 Hong Kong dollars ($5,160; £3,400) by Fifa.

Government limits fertility treatment, so career-focused women turn to U.S. for help in having babies.

Xu Zhe decided a few years ago that he wanted to get married and have a baby—typical life plans for a young man in China.

On a recent morning at a butler-training school in Chengdu, China,;lessons began at 8 A.M.,with an exercise in “opening the villa.”

Wei Yinyong, 33, a local man previously named as a suspect, was identified following DNA tests.

The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country.

The upcoming court case of a filmmaker from Beijing, stands out.

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In line with past recipients, the ailing Castro did not come to Beijing to pick up his award and it was unclear whether he was aware of the honour. The prize, in the form of a gold statuette and certificate, was instead handed to a Cuban foreign...