Alexander Boyd is a former Peace Corps China volunteer. He served in Bijie, Guizhou province. Before joining the Peace Corps he graduated from Vanderbilt University. Follow him on Twitter @alboyd_aka_LiLe.
How are Shandong villagers being convinced to go along with a provincial plan to raze their homes and move them into high-rises? With promises of economic benefits in the future, and if that doesn’t work, with coercion and threats.
Monday this week was the 101st anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. Bilibili, an enormously popular Chinese video sharing and streaming site, entered the battle over the day’s legacy with a video titled “The Coming Wave."
In Taiwan, professional baseball is back. Games are played in empty stadiums with piped-in crowd noise and, in some cases, mannequin fans — but they...
A Henan man wrongfully convicted of murder after a forced confession regained his freedom on Monday, April 1, 2020, after 16 years in prison.