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Last Updated: July 7, 2016

Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border

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Is the new friendship between Russia and China real?

Invisible Bridges

Peter Hessler, photo by Davide...
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Over the past two centuries, there have been periodic tensions between Russia and China, including some serious border conflicts, and historically Russia has usually held the upper hand. But nowadays, at the personal level, Monteleone notices a...

How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens

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

China’s Butler Boom

BIANCA BOSKER
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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.”

Can the Chinese Government Get Its People to Like G.M.O.s?

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Genetically modified food faces zealous public opposition and is largely banned from the marketplace.

Learning to Speak Lingerie: Chinese Merchants and the Inroads of Globalization

Peter Hessler
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All told, along a three-hundred-mile stretch, I found twenty-six Chinese lingerie dealers: four in Sohag, twelve in Asyut, two in Mallawi, six in Minya, and two in Beni Suef. It was like mapping the territory of large predator cats: in the Nile...

The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China

Hua Hsu
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Teresa Teng’s influence is particularly powerful in China, which her parents had fled after the revolution.

The Real Risk Behind China’s Stock-Market Drama

Evan Osnos
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More recently, the Party has offered annual targets for economic growth that almost always bear out, no matter what sort of creative policy, or accounting, steps are required

Born Red

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How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.

Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China’s Artists Handle Politics (or Avoid Them)

Christopher Beam
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Westerners are often criticized for looking at Chinese art through a narrow political lens.

Travels with My Censor

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China’s reading public has begun to discover nonfiction books about China by foreigners.

Eating Alone in China

Fan Jiayang
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The first time I ate at a restaurant by myself, I live-tweeted the experience. “Hot-potting alone!” I enthused, posting a photo I’d taken of a burbling electric pot, ringed by plates of enoki mushrooms, plump squares of tofu, and green-bean-infused...

Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine

Amy Connors
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Thomas Sauvin estimates that he has sifted through more than half a million images, taken by ordinary citizens, between 1985 and the early aughts, that depict everyday life, leisure, and travel, both in China and abroad.

The Kitchen Network

Lauren Hilgers
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“Customers are here already!” the restaurant’s owner, a wiry Chinese man in his fifties, barked. He dropped a heavy container onto the metal counter with a crash. “How can you possibly be moving this slowly?”

A Chinese Artist Confronts Environmental Disaster

Orville Schell
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What were all these sick animals—lions, wolves, camels, monkeys, gazelles, pandas, and zebras—doing on this dilapidated Chinese fishing boat, sailing past the famous frieze of colonial banks, trading houses, and clubs that make up Shanghai’s Bund?