The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” ...

More than the chronology of one company, House of Huawei is partly a family biography of Ren and his eldest daughter Meng Wanzhou, and partly a geopolitical thriller about two superpowers and the ...

How is the Trump administration’s contempt for, and retreat from, multilateral bodies affecting China’s position and weight within them—or indeed its overall strategy for relations with these ...

Popular narratives about Chinese leader Xi Jinping are in flux. Just a few months ago, he was widely seen as an unassailable force. But unusually widespread protests in late November, followed by a ...

In China’s Mao years you could be detained and persecuted for talking with your neighbor about your cat. The Chinese word for “cat” (mao, high level tone) is a near homonym for the name of the Great ...

The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan has given rise to energetic debate, both within China’s borders and beyond. Earlier this month, ChinaFile ran an essay ...

The I Ching has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the ...

From their website:China Digital Times (CDT) is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.We achieve this through:Filtering and ...

What is the future of China studies in the United States given this changing environment? How are recent politics in China and in China’s relations with the U.S. likely to alter the mechanics and ...

Chinese media frequently labels female officials “pretty lady cadres,” especially if they are young.

The rooster hadn’t even stopped his crowing when the police arrived at my Uighur host’s courtyard in rural Turpan one early spring morning in 2008. Although they spoke calmly, almost apologetically, ...

Xu Zhiyong is a legal scholar and was a university lecturer. He holds a doctorate from Peking University. He co-founded the New Citizens Movement, a group that advocated civil rights and China’s ...