The China Beat

(Posted by China Beat on behalf of David Porter) An NPR report yesterday on the opening of a new session of the National People's Congr...

In preparation for the Olympics, Beijing last week unveiled the long-anticipated Terminal 3, the mammoth new edition to the Beijing Airpor...

This past Thursday, Taiwan commemorated the 61st anniversary of the February 28 Incident (hereafter referred to as 228), an uprising against...

A lot has been written about a rise in the number of protests in China – particularly mass demonstrations and those by farmers and villagers...

(Posted by the China Beat on behalf of David Porter) Have you ever suspected that all this recent talk about China and globalization might ...

Living in Beijing as I do, it's not uncommon to be asked about my feelings on the Olympics. Chinese friends, family, colleagues, and eve...

In their coverage of the 1989 student demonstrations, foreign and domestic media focused almost exclusively on the demonstrations in Beijing...

(Posted by the China Beat on behalf of Kate Merkel-Hess) This week marks the 36th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s visit to China, so it was ...

If I rode the subway to and from work, I’d be seriously addicted by now to the Oxford University Press “ Very Short Introductions ” series i...

This week, The China Beat interviews Catherine Sampson, former BBC journalist and The Times correspondent, as well as the author of four m...

(Posted by the China Beat on behalf of Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom) One thing that American newspaper readers can’t help noticing—no matter which...

After Jeremiah Jenne recently posed a question about " the most important Chinese historical figure most people have never heard of ,...