Arts & Society

A Search for a National Spirit

'Demigod' Li Earns Grudging Respect From Critics

Saying It Loud

A Film Without the Flash Gu Changwei's 'Peacock' doesn't need gimmicks -- or kungfu

Net gains bridge cultural gap Computer engineer sets up a cyber-student exchange between China and the US

Singing for Survival Beijing opera used to be prime-time entertainment. Now its principals are ageing, apprentices are leaving and cash-strapped troupes play to empty houses or for foreign tourists

The Fat Lady is Singing Beijing opera seeks to reinvent itself in order to survive

Hooked on Fantasy Everquest, the popular multiplayer videogame for adults, is hitting China in a big way

Bobos in Shangri-la Just when China 's new affluents have begun to enjoy their bourgeois, lifestyle (a downtown apartment, flashy automobiles and Starbucks mochaccinos), along comes a book from America to stir up their latte lifestyles

Night Life in Beijing Beijing night life is doing a fast catch-up in the new millenium

Breaking the News The market is starting to unleash the media in China

Confucius Learning the old ways; Chinese disillusioned with both communism and capitalism are turning back to the ancient moralism of Confucius

Schlock Goes East Competition is bringing a more Western taste for sex, violence and melodrama to Chinese television

Phoenix Rising A Hong Kong satellite-TV station leads the way in opening up China's airwaves to outside influences

No Sex Please, We're Chinese A soft-spoken, bespectacled academic is heading a campaign to teach his fellow Chinese that sex is not a dirty word. So far, it's been an uphill battle

Trail of An Unknown Voice The mysterious poet Shuangqing: was the 18th century poet a female peasant or a male scholar? Two very different academics work to unravel the mystery

Change is Brewing Things are perking up nicely for Beijing's growing numbers of coffee lovers

Breathing in Bejing How bad is it?

Mao Fever enriches his home town

Book Reviews

Operation Yao Ming The Chinese sports empire, American big business, and the making of an NBA superstar

The Battle for China's Billion Lessons from the front lines of doinig business in China

Mr. China Foreign businessmen given a run for their money

Wild Grass Three stories of change in modern China

Sowing Seeds of Change Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Johnson talks about the book he thought he'd never write Jesus Comes to China And the world may never be the same

Ten Stories of a Diplomat Memoirs lift the veil on diplomatic highs and lows

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution Penny wise, pound foolish

China Wakes Too high a price for being quoted

Commentary

Mao Fever spreads across nation as memories begin to fade

Economics

Truth hard to find in pig virus debate

Undue Fears of China Inc? Facing international suspicion and fueled by economic necessity, Chinese companies struggle to expand overseas

China's African Safari Besides buying energy and commodities, China is also trying to win hearts and minds in a continent embittered by colonial experience

China's Statistics Are Fishier Than Its Oceans Why the PRC overcounts its annual catch

Raging Bulls China's stock market craze catches on in the provinces

Education

Confucius Comes Back

In China, an Interest in All Things Jewish Scholars and students examine Judaism as a model for people's success in the modern world

The Long Road Ahead for China's Universities The government has pumped billions into higher-education reform, but money alone is unlikely to fix the problems

Plagued by Plagiarism An endemic problem in Chinese higher education is, ironically, fueled by pressure to raise standards

Campus Life Proves Difficult for China's "Little Emperors" Pampered at home, students rebel against squalid dorms and limits on their freedoms

People

Beijing silences 'one-man rights organisation'

Cost for standing by your man

Unfree Thinker

Hu Jintao Bad for intellectuals, good for peasants

William Hinton Friend of Communism a thorn in Beijing's side

My Way and the Highway China's most controversial author talks about his rise to literary stardom and his love for fast cars

Walking on the Wild Side Founder of pioneering ecotour company WildChina, Zhang Mei combines an entrepreneur's brain with a conservationist's heart

Wen Jiabao The People's Technocrat; As China's legislature anoints the next generation of leaders, the country's new economic czar may be the one who will finally begin to bridge the gap between rich and poor

Zeng Qinghong The consummate insider may be ready to step out front

Lulu Zhang Enjoying a life her parents would never have dreamed possible

Deng's Winners and Losers How the economic reforms changed the lives of four ordinary folks

Man in the Middle How domestic issues have hurt Zhu Rongji

Dam Buster The Three Gorges project stirs a writer into action

Qiao Shi Old man's sad wave tells the nation of change

Politics

Beijing Olympics: Shadow Over a Coming-Out Party China's human-rights abuses and controversial foreign policy could overshadow the games

Preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games, China's Authorities Go After Human-Rights Advocats
  
How the Chinese Authorities Silenced Dissident Hu Jia
 
Dalai Lama Attacked with New Ferocity Beijing is going after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader with an intensity that has surprised analysts

China Wages War on Academic Dissent Aided by the Internet and the market economy, intellectuals are speaking outand paying a price

Stain That Remains Sixteen years after an act of vandalism in the 1989 pro-democracy protests, Yu Dongyue is still serving a sentence that has broken him

Africa Beijing's delicate balancing act

Gagging China's Intellectuals Freedom of expression comes under renewed attack

China Faces Unrest Government rocked by nationwide rise in civil disturbances

Freedom of Speech Criticize, but don't touch the party

'Bad Press' Chinese leadership struggles to control freedom of expression

China's Big Mama's in a Quandary Online freedom fighters — loose collections of Chinese dissidents and hacktivists outside China — continue to test the ingenuity of Chinese censors

Finding Holes in China's Firewall Things are changing fast in cyberspace

China Comes in from the Cold Beijing may have been embarrassed by revelations of the nation's links to a secret underground nuclear network, but a change in thinking places more value on limiting the proliferation of weapons

The Internet The internet was supposed to give people power and influence. But Beijing seems to be winning round one

Party Time -- For Some How the party spruced up for the 50th

Massacre in China How the surprise attack began

China's Big Mama's in a Quandary Caught between the urge to repress and to make use of the Internet, Beijing sees its power eroded

Social Issues

Faith in the Countryside ... ADD

Attack on Church Nuns in China beaten in property dispute

Keeping the Faith Despite centuries of secrecy, China's last Orthodox Christians are defiantly clinging to their beliefs in the hope of Beijing granting greater freedoms

Degrees of Deceit Thousands of Chinese students are cheating their way through school

Power of Prayer "Underground" and state-approved Catholic churches are gradually merging in a trend that worries Beijing

Escaped Converts Aided by clandestine Christian networks, North Koreans are finding God and reaching freedom

North Korean Refugees Four teenagers and the long road to freedom

The New Untouchables An army of street beggars has invaded mainland cities after a change in the law; officially hailed as a step forward, the new regulations have made it difficult for the authorities to move them

About 7 and Working the District

Language Lessons Minority languages are in danger of disappearing

Basic but Bilingual Tibetan children are discovering that learning Putonghua doesn't mean they have to abandon their mother tongue

Half the Sky A former Hollywood screenwriter's adopted Chinese daughter inspired her to establish a foundation to help other orphaned children on the mainland

Women Need Not Apply Unskilled, untrained and often in the bottom-rung jobs, the rust-belt women have been hit hardest by the sudden shift to a market economy

Easy Streets With the gap between rich and poor widening, there's no shortage of young women willing to trade poverty for the comforts that come with the being a second wife or even a prostitute.

The Kids Are Not Alright Across China, new youth gangs are fueling an alarming rise in the number and viciousness of crimes committed by juveniles

Second Wives' Club Concubines are gaining a renewed notoriety in China among men looking to mark their fortune--and young women hoping to improve theirs

Braving the Seas and More Smuggling Chinese into the U.S. means big business

Underground Church Catholic movement thrives as opposition's battle begins

Travel

Start Your Day the Hubu Way

Dinner Theatre

Beijing's Winter of Content

Pingyao A fortress besieiged

The Red Capital Club Where there's a bit of history behind every dish

The Courtyard More than just a restaurant

Food for an Emperor A humble home in Goat House Lane draws epicureans eager to sample authentic recipes of Beijing’s old imperial court

Peking Duck Beijing is the modern spelling for the Chinese capitalk, but mention roas duck and most people think Peking

The Yangtze The Middle Kingdom's Great River

Lao She Memories of Abundance


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