Xie Jin remains relatively obscure outside of his home country, which is a shame. He directed such canonical films as The Red Detachment of Women 红色娘子军……Read More

This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. This week on Sinica, Jeremy and Kaiser speak with Kai-Fu Lee 李开复, who has returned to discuss his new book, AI Superpo… Read More

Over a year and a half ago, Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation multilateral deal with many countries in China’s neighborhood that was specif… Read More

Full transcript: Jia: So you started teaching at Yale University in the 1970s. And now you’re a professor at a lot of top universities in China, such as Tsinghua University and Peking… Read More

This week, the Economist has a cover story on U.S.-China relations (porous paywall), which declares that the era of “engagement” between the two countries is dead. The piece star… Read More

The family of a 14-year-old Yunnan girl, who took her own life after long-term bullying by classmates, decided not to hold the bullies accountable after the school provided financial assista… Read More

Sometimes, there really is no big story that dominates the China news, and today is such a day, but a variety of small pieces piqued my curiosity: “Resurgent demand for imported wine&r&hell…Read More

Here’s a roundup of today’s top stories in central state media. I don’t say this often, but I actually enjoyed reading the People’s Daily today! The People’s Da… Read More

Crazy Rich Asians took Hollywood by storm this summer, winning critical praise and inspiring moving essays about the power of representation. It elevated the likes of Constance Wu and A… Read More

Beijing Ren is a video series documenting local contemporary Beijing life and culture.   Just outside Second Ring Road in east-central Beijing is the area of Yabaolu 雅宝… Read More