China Air Quality Study Has Good News and Bad News
on March 31, 2016
PM 2.5 levels in five key cities declined in the past three years, but are still above WHO's upper safety limit.
Rights Activist Ni Yulan 'Barred from Leaving' China
on March 31, 2016
Ni Yulan planned to travel this week to the U.S. to accept the International Women of Courage Award, but she was refused a passport.
China Charges Tibetan Education Advocate With Inciting Separatism
on March 30, 2016
A detained entrepreneur who advocated for bilingual education in Tibet has been charged with inciting separatism.
When China Sneezes, Does Africa Catch a Cold?
A China in Africa Podcast
on March 30, 2016
Chinese government officials have been on an all-out public relations offensive across Africa lately to reassure increasingly nervous political and business leaders that even though China’s economy may be slowing it will not affect the P.R.C.’s investment plans in Africa.
Nicholas Norbrook
on March 30, 2016
Nicholas Norbrook is the Managing Editor of The Africa Report, helping to set up the magazine in 2005. He has been a producer for Radio France International, and has lived and worked in West Africa. In 2011, he won the Diageo Business Reporting award for Journalist of the Year.
Yuanjin Photo
on March 29, 2016
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Xinjiang Ban on Glacier Tourism Ignores the Bigger Problem
on March 29, 2016
The Xinjiang government has banned tourists from glaciers under the 13th Five-Year Plan in order to try and save the far northwestern province’s fast-disappearing ice caps. Home to China’s largest glaciers, the Xinjiang province has seen its glaciers recede sharply in recent years.
Receding glaciers across western China—a source of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers along with most of Asia’s major rivers—threaten the water sources for millions of people.
‘River Town’ the Movie
A Q&A With Author Peter Hessler
on March 29, 2016
Not since Iron and Silk premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 has a movie based on a memoir about teachers on the front lines of U.S.-China relations come to the big screen. Director Shirley Sun’s mostly-English-language film adaptation of Mark Salzman’s 1986 book—in which the author played himself—grossed just over $350,000 and was never released in China. It was a film ahead of its time.
Why Some Chinese Like Donald Trump
on March 29, 2016
There's a range of reasons, from his history as a reality-television star to admiring his daughter's appearance.
China to Survey Children Left Behind by Migrant Workers
on March 29, 2016
The move comes after a series of reports on those children, who are often put in the care of older relatives or are sometimes abandoned.