Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

It's not often that a book comes out that rewrites a country's history. But that's the case with Tombstone, which was written by a retired Chinese reporter who spent 10 years secretly collecting ...

Yang Jisheng, trans. from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-27793-2 One of the 20th century’s worst catastrophes is a monument to Maoist ...

THE Chinese have a proverb: “if the city gale is burned, it will cause injury to the fish in the moat.”Which being translated from Oriental symbolism means: “The innocent bystander is generally the ...

The gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong’s Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy—at carefully reckoned prices—even the most dubious currencies. But last week they ...

Broiling sun beat down on Hankow, China last week. It was nearly 100°. On the roofs of their rickety houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet ...

When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, ...