He helped develop a hybrid rice that tackled hunger in his country and beyond, and when Yuan died...
-Essay- PARIS — The rendez-vous was for last January 21, on the anniversary of Louis XVI's death. A friend had tipped me off that hundreds of French citizens gather each year in Paris to ...
Swedish-born, Paris-based writer Carl-Johan Karlsson has been seeing "dead museums" since the pan...
A self-described American aesthete has no good answers for her French friends aghast at the reali...
PRAGUE — As I walked down Avenue René Coty on a sunny day in late May, everything was like a Paris postcard — except that my glasses were fogging up over my facemask. But I knew the ...
Beginning last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has tightened access to media visas for any journalist holding a Chinese passport. The validity period of each visa delivered will be ...
Some of the country's eateries may not survive. Others are having to adapt — and quickly —...
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Dancers don't have things as easy as the French government, which was looking to end their "privi...
How the current Brexit debacle looks (and feels) from a member of what may be Britain's last gene...
BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I ...
BEIJING — Yang Ke works for a high-tech company in Shenzhen on the southeast coast of China. Thanks to a few years spent abroad, he has saved up a considerable amount of money and is looking ...
By becoming president for life, Xi Jinping is bringing China back to its imperial history, taking...
BEIJING — An online game from Japan has become a hopping success in China. Unheard of until recently, Tabikaeru: Travel Frog — developed by the Japanese company Hit-Point — is suddenly ...
President Xi Jinping demands "inflexible atheism" from his fellow Communist Party members. But he...
BEIJING — In Xi Jinping's China, it is again a risky proposition to openly criticize Mao Zedong. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought it had resolved the discussion in 1981 when it ...
-OpEd- Is this China's big moment? The World Economic Forum in Davos is welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping as a special guest. It's the first time a Chinese leader has attended the event. ...
BEIJING — It's been more than a year since China abolished the one-child policy ntroduced in 1979 to control the population. The politburo came up with a new two-child policy and simplified ...
A county in China long known for its poets and philosophers is now in the news for something far more notorious — renting out children as thieves for hire. In Dao county in the southern ...
-OpEd- KALAMAZOO — People from China who travel abroad are struck by the stark differences between their countries. In the U.S. and Europe, they probably envy how people live in comfort and ...
One of Mao's most grandiose ideas — an aqueduct stretching 3,500 kilometers — is ...
BEIJING — China's copycat culture is so deeply ingrained that along with the mock mobile phones, counterfeit clothing and faux food packaging, there is also an ...
