(AP) Orders to prevent sales of T-shirts showing Obama dressed like communist revolutionary Mao Zedong are in force during the president's visit -- an...
Ari Herzog | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
The blogosphere is abuzz in the wake of President Barack Obama's statement in Shanghai Sunday night that he doesn't use Twitter, nor has he ever Tweeted. Should it matter?
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
In all cultures, key milestones crystallize the nature of individual identity. This event, one that took place in twenty-first century Shanghai, city of new dreams and neon buzz, was no different.
Jessy Tolkan | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
Watching President Obama take questions from students in Shanghai, I couldn't help but feel disappointed that he has yet to engage with young Americans in the youth climate movement.
Alexia Parks | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
Of the 193 countries who have signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, only two countries in the world, the United States and Somalia, have refused to ratify it.
Posted 11.16.2009 | World
SHANGHAI (AP)- President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an anim...
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While the Berlin Wall may have been torn down, there remain many walls that are defiantly standing and indeed new ones that have been erected.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
There exist complex ties between the International Exhibition lineage that the 2010 Shanghai Expo will continue, on the one hand, and Disney theme parks, on the other.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 10.25.2009 | Style
The concept of customer service is still fairly new in China. That's most noticeably true if you're traveling on business.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Without further ado, here are the first three exercises in my six-step plan to get ready for the Chinese National Day.
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
BEIJING — Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to ha...
Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
It's not news that the Chinese government actively works to prevent the free flow of information, but what I did find surprising were the mixed emotions about it amongst the Chinese I met.
Reuters | Posted 08.04.2009 | Business
Wall Street may be down on its luck, but China's growing business hub, Shanghai, plans to install its own version of the Street's famed charging bull ...
Al Jazeera | Melissa Chan | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
China's economic resilience during the global downturn is attracting a growing number of American companies. One of them is the toymaker Mattel, make...
Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
As the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai approaches, the government has been making a push to showcase the city as a model of social harmony. Just how they are making the sell misrepresents the minorities of China.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
Just over a month ago, Porsche released the production facts and figures and pricing for their new Panamera four-door sedan. And today, we nearly ran ...
GlobalPost.com | Emily Rauhala | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
HONG KONG -- Tall, blond, impossibly large breasts. Barbie stands out anywhere, but in China, she really turns heads. And that, of course, is exactl...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
The Beijing Games should be seen as a part of an ongoing, ambitious, and so far partially successful re-branding effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party.
Walden Bello | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
East Asia may be entering a period of radical protest and social revolution that went out of style when export-oriented industrialization became the fashion three decades ago.
Megan Shank | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
As China's diet and lifestyle habits change in sync with its newly achieved wealth, more than a quarter of China's adult population has become overweight or obese.
Stefanie Michaels | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green
Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...
Steve Posner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.
AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 08.11.2008 | Entertainment
SHANGHAI, China — Russia contained the speedsters. Controlled the backboards. Everything a team needs to do to beat the United States. Except st...
Meghan Peters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living
Despite being nearly as far from Beijing as San Francisco is from Seattle, Shanghai had the same "Beijing 2008" signs that are scattered throughout China's capital.
Posted 11.17.2009 | World