For China and the world, June 4th, the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, is a time for reflection. One important question emerges from the narrative of this reflection: after 20 years, how could a protest of such magnitude and repression of such brutality have resulted neither in significant...

In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in China's swelling cities to return to their families in the countryside. In 2008, snowstorms disrupted travel across China, leaving tens of millions stranded at...

On November 10th, China's Ministry of Culture published for public comment a draft of its new Regulations for Commercial Public Performances. Normally such minutiae don't make headlines, but Article 29 of the regulations is notable for barring performers who pretend to sing or play an instrument to pre-recorded music....