Society

Jindong Cai, 59, is an orchestra conductor and a professor at Stanford University.

"The paratroopers are a new power, a challenge to the government and the central authorities in Beijing."

Their arrests are emblematic of a slowly brewing backlash against Chinese immigration to Africa.

State-owned and private tech firms team up to cut cord to U.S. suppliers.

The Chinese authorities had killed 28 people suspected of taking part in an attack on a coal mine in the country’s turbulent western frontier.

It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution.

For years, multinational companies have been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the growth of the Chinese middle class.

China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.

China vowed "justice" for a Chinese national kidnapped and apparently slain by the Islamic State.

The opening of a McDonald's outlet in the home of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo in Hangzhou, China has sparked a controversy.

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China has appealed for the international community to provide more help in its campaign against Xinjiang militants following the attacks in Paris.

It took a while, but James Bond finally won over Chinese audiences as Spectre, the 24th film in the franchise.

A senior Chinese health official said last year that China would stop using prisoners’ organs for transplants as of Jan. 1, 2015.

Around the world, there are legendary, dynastic rivalries in football.

Communist China has a long history of recruiting foreign experts to advise state-owned companies and teach at universities.

Hong Kong and China fans will be kept completely separate at their crunch World Cup qualifier Tuesday, using different entrances and even different toilets.

With Deng’s political reforms in the 1980s and 1990s came increased discrimination based on appearance.

A Chinese journalist who is now living in exile in India has handed a large list of what he says are sensitive terms censored in China to Radio Free Asia, a US-backed broadcaster.

“Why can people who glory in color and fun and variety wear a uniform of boiler suits that brings drabness and dreariness to every gathering?”

Condolence and support from heads of state across the globe poured in to France after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, had won most of the 491 seats contested in the election, with results still trickling in.

The corruption campaign has finally spread to every province in the country.

Members of this generation were born after Mao's death, and when Deng Xiaoping took power and opened up China’s economy for reform.

Online shopping and entertainment fused into a consumerist juggernaut.

“Double 11 is a really big part of my calendar.”

“I had this great American dream that got broken.”

Last year 27,000 merchants joined and Alibaba’s sites grossed £6.1b.

Their disappearance has alarmed the cultural community in a city already fearful of Beijing's growing encroachment.

On Sunday pollution readings were about 50 times higher than that considered safe by the World Health Organization.

Li Dongpu, CEO and co-founder of car wash startup Wo Ai Xiche, has disappeared

Land seizures, driven by soaring prices and a push for urban expansion, have been a major source of popular discontent in China, often resulting in violent stand-offs between officials and the public.

For the past eight years, the Chinese government has showered its former enemies in Taiwan with economic gifts.

Despite the recent economic slowdown in China, the country's film market is growing even faster than anticipated.

China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change.

The Asian trilateral no one talks about is seeing some interesting new developments.

This is the first truly innovative drug manufactured in China that passes the audits of FDA and it is about to enter the NDA progress.

China will push the study of Mandarin and the "blending" of different races as part of a new stability push in the troubled far western region of Xinjiang.

“I felt winded. My stomach dropped. My eyebrows raised. I managed a small chuckle. Talk about feeling a mix of emotions.”

For decades, China has been engaged in a building boom of a scale that is hard to wrap your mind around.

China has moved forward with a new film industry law intended to boost the sector and help Chinese companies compete internationally.

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

Marvel's "mighty" superhero Ant-Man continued to punch above its weight at the Chinese box office, winning a second consecutive week.

China is losing interest in learning English, sending its proficiency in the global language of business falling ten places in a worldwide ranking.

We’re in Beijing — no, Beiping — Dec. 10, 1979.

Liu Lizhu was not aware her shy, 15-year-old son had been bullied at school until he ended up in hospital with a ruptured spleen.

Couples must continue to obey the country's one-child policy until the law changes in March.

The abandonment of the one-child policy in China is a momentous change.

One night last spring, two veteran photojournalists working in Beijing came up with an interesting idea.

Chinese officials will be able to impose a prison sentence of up to seven years on a person convicted of creating and spreading “false information” online.

China has reportedly dropped its long-standing one-child policy, which was first enacted decades ago in an effort to curb overpopulation.The current population rests at around 1.4 billion after having the policy in place for over 35 years. Only time...