The China Beat

By Robert Bickers ‘What are we to drink?’ asked a British doctor in Shanghai in 1867, reflecting on the precautions needed to maintain healt...

In Sunday’s New York Times , Ha Jin reflected on his decision to remain in the West after graduate school and to write primarily in English...

A few months ago, we ran an interview with Lisa See about her new novel, S hanghai Girls . The book was released last week and See is in th...

The Chinese droughts have just begun to move onto the front pages of the world's newspapers, but the droughts are just the latest sign o...

By Angilee Shah Akshay Kumar's last trip west was in the 2007 Bollywood hit Namastey London . He played the provincial but lovable Punja...

By Peter Zarrow “ Cape No. 7 ” (海角七號) is an energetic bon-bon of a film that is Taiwan’s official entry for the Oscars this year, in the “be...

We've been hearing a lot lately about China's growing economic activities in Africa and its "charm offensive" in various p...