Despite huge leaps in recent decades, rural living standards remain an issue of widespread popular concern in China. A heating crisis in Hebei last winter,

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The myth of China's nuclear restraint obscures the dangers of its rapidly expanding arsenal. A trio of recent books take us from the bomb’s origins in Lop Nur to the present arms race.

Five new books deal with efforts to transform China: from the conquests of the Warring States to nationalist internet fantasies, all the way to campaigns against superstition.

The psychiatrist and human-rights campaigner died on February 16th, aged 79

Misogyny and patriarchy are a later misreading of The Analects, argues the author of a new translation of the Confucian classic.

A malarial wet portends thunder and the fevered return of memory.

The prolific social media blogger explains how censorship works in the era of WeChat, and talks us through a changing media landscape, in our new column on the biggest ideas out of China.

Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.

The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate automated traffic camera enforcement in the nation’s capital.

2025 has seen a bumper crop for Chinese literature in translation. We recommend five recent titles, from gritty tales of the northeast to conjoined fiction from Hong Kong.

Tales of trickery were popular in the late Ming dynasty. The translators of a new collection explain how they still resonate today.

Before he became an award-winning novelist, the Indian writer Vikram Seth was an exchange student in China. In the 1980s, he traveled overland from Nanjing to Delhi.

NED honors China Digital Times for its unwavering commitment to chronicling the Chinese people’s struggle for freedom.

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...