News
Workers Detained for Digging a Hole in China’s Great Wall
The two construction workers reportedly widened a gap in the wall, seeking a shortcut.
China
News
How Blank White Paper Became a Symbol of Dissent in China
Protests are erupting across the country in response to President Xi Jinping’s strict zero-COVID policy.
News
China Reprimands 27 Officials for "Tragically Ugly" Illustrations in School Textbook
“The overall style of the illustrations do not conform to the aesthetic tastes of the public,” said the country's Ministry of Education.
News
River in China Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues
The Yangtze River's water levels are receding amid an ongoing heatwave in the country.
Film
Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments
Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.
News
Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia
Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.
Film
The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics
Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.
Art
Two Artists Record the Voices of the Silk Road
The Silk Road Songbook’s polyvocal strategies to share diasporic experiences are a radical reversal of what expressions of resistance and persistence are expected to look like.
Opinion
It Is Time for International Museums to Sever Ties With China
The recent atrocities mean that museums working with Chinese state-run enterprises need to think long and hard about their presence.
Books
Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
News
Hong Kong’s Only Tiananmen Massacre Memorial Faces Removal
There is an official ban against the public mourning of Tiananmen Square victims in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Film
The Industry and Leisure of the World's Largest Middle Class
Jessica Kingdon's new film Ascension documents the factories, etiquette centers, and other contemporary curiosities of China.