It is an event worth paying attention to, even if one feels, as many Americans do, that the era of great World's Fairs has come and gone, since this one will be the largest in history.
All eyes will be on Shanghai on May 1 as the glistening Chinese metropolis plays host to the 2010 World Expo. Organizers expect more than 70 million ...
Party people in China, not to mention curious bloggers around the world, are eagerly awaiting the opening of the hottest club in Shanghai - the Obama...
Michael Wines and Jonathan Ansfield's article makes too much of a new draft law in China, suggesting that it will offer protection to Chinese whose homes are under threat of demolition.
Finishing up work on China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know set me thinking about the varied ways that books incorporate things that have gone before them.
Senator Boxer gets it and is in the bus driver's seat on the 30/10 Initiative that Move LA and The Transit Coalition are so effectively advocating for.
From Tampa to Dublin to Alicante and Dubai empty condos and villas that were never home to anyone, litter the landscape as a sterile reminder of a par...
It may look bizarre and painful to the touch, but the Seed Cathedral will be the centerpiece of Britain's contribution to the Shanghai World Expo. Th...
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.
BEIJING — Chinese authorities secretly investigated a dairy for nearly a year before announcing the company had been producing milk tainted with...
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.
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.
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.
(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...
SHANGHAI (AP)- President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an anim...
If we want to join the Chinese and other innovators in finding solutions to our clean energy and infrastructure challenges we need to wake up before we sleep through the Green Revolution
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.
The concept of customer service is still fairly new in China. That's most noticeably true if you're traveling on business.
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?
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."
Without further ado, here are the first three exercises in my six-step plan to get ready for the Chinese National Day.
BEIJING — Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to ha...
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 ...
China's economic resilience during the global downturn is attracting a growing number of American companies. One of them is the toymaker Mattel, make...
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.
