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.
One week before the torch is lit at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Mark Dreyer reflects on what these Games will mean for China — both its athletes and its now-turbocharged winter sports industry.
The riotous canvases of Wang Ziping
Not your typically shallow Chinese romance drama.
As many as 8% of Chinese citizens will say on a survey that they are unhappy with the central government. What do they have in common? Rory Truex, a scholar at Princeton University, drew on extensive survey research to find some fascinating common threads in their personality traits.
A court case that began this week in Taipei touches on the contradiction between Taiwan’s goal of creating a multicultural society and the entrenched structures of an overwhelmingly majority-Han society.
Although there’s no evidence that the editing was ordered by Chinese authorities, many critics pinned the blame on the complex — and sometimes arbitrary — censorship rules in China, which discourage the release of cultural products with portrayals of nudity, violence, and other intense material.
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary historian.
A 17-year-old student launched an online campaign to find his biological parents after his adoptive parents died. His quest for belonging ended in tragedy.
Life inside a piece of Shanghai history