Cross purposes
Michael Reilly
Xi Jinping’s megalomania can’t explain everything in the Taiwan Strait
Category: China
Plain fantasy
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Finally, some great stories from China
Frozen in Wuhan
Tom Baxter
Fang Fang’s diary helped her compatriots get through the darkest days of the lockdown in Wuhan
Seeing red
Michael Reilly
Under Chinese influence or guilt by association?
Shanghai’s last race
Paul French
Horse racing, a symbol of British colonialism, went with the empire
Rise of Shenzhen
Anne Stevenson-Yang
China’s most successful modern city was an accident of history
Woman-radical: A feminist lesson in Chinese characters
Yuan Changming
Poetry from Yuan Changming
China closes the border
Jennifer Eagleton
Why Hong Kong is an identity issue for China
The spectre of Tiananmen
Richard Heydarian
Tiananmen has shown that communist China will do anything to cling onto power. HK is next.
The coming anger
Richard Heydarian
Get ready for an anti-China backlash over coronavirus
Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Coronavirus
Anthony Tao
Four poems by Anthony Tao
Lunch out
Kelly Falconer
Remembering the Beijing Bookworm
Trouble
Richard Heydarian
China is facing a regional backlash
No limit
Alice Dawkins
A millennial in Beijing
The gambler
Hugo Pinto
The life of a Macau casino tycoon
Artificial power
Geoffrey Cain
Has our relationship with technology reached a turning point?
Inside China’s dream
Rhys Griffiths
An interview with exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian
Home is everywhere
Rachel Leow
What does it mean to be Chinese?
Baloney
Michael Buckley
Bogus health claims are pushing species to the brink
Frontal history
Stephen Teo
Covering three decades of the Chinese film industry
More anarchy
David Eimer
The decline of Western influence in an age of acronyms
Tea empire
Milton Osborne
How tea fuelled Western colonial endeavour
Hot water
Bill Hayton
It should be obvious by now what China wants in the South China Sea
Leaving America
Richard McGregor
A road trip yields insights into the rise and decline of megapowers
Vanishing
Scott Ezell
Trading away priceless heritage
Turning east
Sebastian Strangio
What explains Southeast Asia’s periodic lurch to authoritarianism?
China calling
David Eimer
Can Aung San Suu Kyi resist China’s influence? The generals before her couldn’t
What China wants
Peter Tasker
China is back in charge in Asia.
Thread songs
Gill Green
How a French traveller stumbled upon the Miao and their textile culture
Tangled up in red
Chris Taylor
The US love affair with China is marked by cycles of exuberance and deflationary despair.
Borderlands
Vu Duc Liem
The true history of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
One Chinese
Chris Taylor
‘Do you speak Chinese?’ is akin to asking ‘Do you speak Romance?’
Sorrow in a shopping mall
Chris Taylor
The word “miracle” is bandied about far too much in the context of China
Dreamworld
Rupert Winchester
A huge step forward for Beijing-based Hong Kong novelist Chan Koonchung
Mad, bad and French
Michelle Vachon
Michelle Vachon explores the “bad Frenchmen” of Indochina