Long Reads
Martha Sawyers eschewed pre-war tropes of other Western artists depicting Chinese people as weak and backward.
Unearthed by poachers in the 2000s, the Halszkaraptor escuilliei is a dinosaur unlike anything seen before and, having changed hands a number of times across continents, is finally ready to come home.
When a climber falls from a cliff, the unit of uniquely trained fire services officers springs to action to save their life.
The triumphs and challenges of the nation’s designers and distributors are revealed in this excerpt from the book Fashion in Multiple Chinas – Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape.
The little-known and dwindling community, which has only 100 practising members in Henan province, has an unlikely ambassador – a teenage schoolboy from Hong Kong.
One marriage, 380,000 miles, two children and many mishaps later, only a murder could (briefly) interrupt the pioneering filmmaker’s travels.
An excerpt from Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, edited by Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García and Victoria H. F. Scott, explores the contradictions inherent in the global spread of China’s 20th century political doctrine.
Health experts warned of a future epidemic that would be ‘threatening to the world and socially disrupting’. The new coronavirus may fit the description.
In this second excerpt of Peter Andreas’ book Killer High, the author recounts how a post-war surplus of the drug triggered addiction epidemics around the world.
Driven off Queensland’s goldfields, arrivals from China pioneered trade and agriculture in the north of the country, until discriminatory legislation and changing times forced them out.
Thousands of Chinese construction workers have been left unpaid and stranded in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, as work on half-built casinos backed by Chinese investors comes to a halt following August ban on online gambling.
The 63-year-old Hong Kong journalist turned lawmaker talks to Kate Whitehead about reporting from Beijing on the Tiananmen Square crackdown and her recent run-in with pro-establishment lawmaker Junius Ho.
Architect Juan Du has written a book about the long history of Shenzhen, China’s ‘instant’ metropolis bordering Hong Kong. We take a stroll through the city’s vanishing old enclaves with her.
Various local NGOs have come together to oppose construction projects in the Malaysian state, including three motorways, an undersea tunnel and three new islands
In an excerpt from the book Killer High, author Peter Andreas lays out how the opium poppy has been funding political parties and conflict for generations, often with the CIA’s tacit approval.
Following the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, China was expected to take the environmental lead, but, as the deadlock at the recent COP25 conference shows, the country has other plans.
The Portuguese colony’s potential as a hub for transpacific flights came to light in the 1930s – as did a mystery bid to buy it outright.
The covert operation that spirited the celebrated businessman and former head of Nissan to Lebanon illustrates how wealth and connections can set you, literally, free.
With the existing workforce ageing, a historic shortfall looming and Trump limiting immigration, the system’s best hope lies with the nurses themselves.