China is often perceived as a monolith — not just politically, but socially and culturally, too. Nothing could be further from the truth, and The China Project dives deep into its diverse and changing society and culture on a daily basis.
Faced with official scrutiny and potential complaints from student informants, most of China’s gay teachers and researchers choose to stay in the closet. But that doesn't mean they aren’t fighting for a queer-friendly environment in Chinese academia, Cui Le told The China Project.
Beyond the suffering inflicted on tens of thousands of people, the Hu Weiyong purge fundamentally reshaped Ming government, concentrating power in the person of the emperor.
Coffins and angels, blood and weapons, stuffed animals and school uniforms. These images all live comfortably together across congming's wild body of work.
Lu Xinghua is the sort of individual who complicates the outside world’s vision of China. He is a man of contradictions, an intellectual with brazen ideas who is disconnected from both mainstream politics and popular dissent.
‘The Era of Jiang Zemin’ is dense with detail, built up from a wide range of interviews with Chinese executives, officials, academics, diplomats, and businesspeople. In that sense, the book itself was a product of a more open political system under Jiang.
China has had its fair share of severe earthquakes over the centuries, most recently in Sichuan in 2008 and Tangshan in 1976. But the largest in its history happened this week during the Ming dynasty.
It’s hard to describe Zhang Zipiao’s art as beautiful, at least in the conventional sense. There’s an anatomical precision to the way her subjects are often sliced and examined against backdrops of unexpected colors.
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After years of advocacy from LGBTQ rights campaigners, Taiwan has decided to recognize transnational same-sex marriages, though Taiwanese-mainland Chinese couples are excluded.