Blurring Realityâs Edge in Fluid China
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Jia Zhang-ke, the director of âStill Life,â looks at his country and sees an enormous, rapidly changing movie set.
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The China Instituteâs show offers an abundance of images that confuse, contradict or entirely depart from accepted art historical categories or classical notions of beauty.
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The plight of the litchi industry shows both the promise and the pitfalls of China's remarkable economic growth.
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In todayâs economically vibrant and politically self-confident China bad news is no news, unless it is really bad. So, things must have gone really badly for Chinaâs official news agency to report ethnic
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Zhou Fenying is a living witness  to the dark history that still poisons China&#39;s relations with  Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.
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Sidney Rittenberg's 35 years in China provide a unique perspective on the country and its famed leader.
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Like any number of Chinese films that make the festival rounds, âDam Streetâ offers a portrait of alienation in a post-Mao world as believable as it is grim, grim, grim.
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Chinaâs pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.
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Drivers spend hours, sometimes days, waiting in traffic, a small example of the epic scale, and epic inefficiency, of ChinaÂs coal economy.
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As a bicycle kingdom gearing-up to become an automobile society, China, the world&#39;s third largest car manufacturing base, is facing a serious problem of automobile-related pollution and soaring levels of petrol consumption.
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The Chinese were consuming fermented beverages &#151; possibly wine &#151; as long as 9,000 years ago, according to scientists who used modern techniques to peer back through the mists of time.
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China is discussing what it means to be a major world power and has stopped denying that it intends to become one soon.
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China is booming and Beijing is its cosmopolitan heart. What's the platform of choice for the city's new tech and media elite? Well, it's not the Mac. But China's Macophiles are banding together. Hector Mackenzie reports from the Chinese capital.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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A rebel of Chinaâs avant-garde reinvents himself as a painter, sculptor and installation artist.
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At the World Economic Forum, aid to the devolping world took center stage--and China remained a mystery
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So Iâve finally finished the tough slog through The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedmanâs much-cited opus on globalization. One could take issue with the 577-page bookâs uneconomical approach to language, but itâs hard to dismiss its basic economic premise: The playing field is leveling out, as India, China, and other emerging markets plug in to a global economy. Outsourcing is a fact of life.