When President Xi Jinping last came to central China’s Lankao county, it was famous for two things: poverty and the government official who reputedly died trying to end it. Three years later, the hardscrabble area has undergone a Cinderella-like transformation, waltzing across the national poverty line just in time for the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on…
Editor-in-Chief Andrew Burke is a lifelong aficionado of all things Chinese. He studied Mandarin while living in Taiwan for six years and now works as a digitization specialist at the Yenching Library, which specializes in Asian books and documents, at Harvard University where he also studies topics related to China, Chinese, Asia and foreign affairs.
Visitors to the Guishan zoo thought they were going to see rare animals this week. Instead, they got inflatable penguins. You read that right. Social media is lighting up with photos of inflatable penguins among […]
Life is not getting any better for those in Hong Kong seeking independence or better treatment from mainland China, according to a former major general and influential mainland defense researcher. “The central government’s policies for […]
A United Nations Security Council sat down Tuesday to vote on a resolution regarding the Syrian War. Unfortunately, the meeting did not go as planned. Instead of passing a resolution that serves the good of […]