When Britain handed over control to China, Hong Kong was a beacon of freewheeling prosperity – but Beijing’s grip has tightened. Is there hope for the city’s radical pro-democracy movement?
Sand is a crucial material for making concrete, asphalt, and glass — the building blocks of our cities. The worldwide construction boom is causing widespread environmental damage.
Most Chinese migrants workers in Singapore are employed in the service sector, for instance in cafes, and in construction. They pay quite a lot of money to come to Singapore.
Former classmates from a secondary school in rural China were drifted apart by the smuggling wave that brought thousands of them to the U.S. How are their lives different 30 years later?
From Cambodia to California, industrial-scale sand mining is wreaking havoc. And booming urbanisation means the demand for this increasingly valuable resource won't let up.
Put your butcher's sword down! Latest in my series of Q&As with leading Chinese thinkers about China's past, present and future. I traveled to rural China with Tan to look at the scene of a genocide.
Before she died in prison, 'Sister Ping' smuggled thousands from an obscure middle school to U.S. shores. Some now wish they'd never left.
For centuries, Uyghurs have journeyed between the different Muslim shrines dotting the Taklamakan Desert. Now, the Chinese state has forcibly closed many of them.
Ian Johnson goes to a remote Chinese province to write about an unknown case of genocide in the Cultural Revolution, a case that helps broaden the scope of Mao-era killings.
Chinese authorities speak of terrorism as an ideological problem, but treat it as an ethnic one.
Talking China: the latest in a series of interviews with Chinese thinkers on how they push for change, the writer Hu Fayun reflects on how tough it is to remain an honest person inside the system.
Terror and religious extremism challenge a state unaccustomed to martyrdom narratives. Can a country doing business all over the world really avoid other peoples' politics?
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