Xi Jinping’s visit heavy on symbolism but no sign closed-door meeting yielded breakthroughs on thorny issues such as AI, trade, Taiwan and Iran

On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed by censorship, and a new generation of feminists

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise an...

It is now fifty years since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976; almost two-thirds of the history of the People’s Republic of China is the post-Mao era. The reform era is at the cutting edge of research in Chinese history. At least in my own institution, students with interests in international politics and economy (including many non-history majors) are keen to explore the history of China’s recent decades.  But we have struggled to bridge the gap between Mao’s China and Xi Jinping’s. Many instructors feel ill-equipped to teach the history of China’s last five decades, beyond the barebones...

A Hong Kong court on Thursday rejected the appeal brought by a 94-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and four others over their convictions for failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help ...