After the port of Shanghai was opened in 1842, a thriving Jewishi community took root. Ron Gluckman, "an American journalist who has been roaming widely around Asia since 1990," ... Read More

Danwei has a list of words that Xinhua, the Chinese government's official press service, bans from use. As Danwei points out, one of the most interesting things is that most of ... Read More

A Move Toward Press Freedom? For a foreign reporter in China to be worth her salt, she has to be one part journalist, one part 007: switching cars to evade shadows, ... Read More

China has executed a man for killing nearly a dozen people in a temple Shaanxi province last July. His motive? The temple's abbot apparently flirted with the killer's ... Read More

Confucius says, "Men at birth are naturally born good." A Xinhua news article from earlier this month recently caught my eye because of its a catchy title: "Confucius, Freud Find Place ... Read More

As Christmas rolls around in China, it raises old questions about religious freedom, capitalism and whether Western influences are eroding Chinese traditional culture. Merry Christmas China (Capitalist-Style) Chinese Christians Chinese Students Boycott Christmas - ... Read More

Several students from elite Chinese universities made news this week when, in an open letter, they warned against thoughtlessly adopting foreign culture, including Christmas. "We 10 doctoral students from different universities ... Read More

The Christmas season also brings up the old question of religious freedom in China. Currently, China's 80 to 100 million Christians are only allowed to worship in government-sanctioned churches, and ... Read More

I was shopping the other day in one of the other day in one of Beijing's five Carrefour locations. Carrefour the French-owned "hypermarket" chain with stores in 29 countries ... Read More

China's central government has been considering a new measure which would factor in environmental and resource costs the calculation of GDP. The country's first "Green GDP" report, released in 2004, estimated ... Read More

Is bigger better? Beijing plans to expand its National Museum over the next four years, transforming it into the world's largest. (See also China.org's brief history of the ... Read More

It's International Human Rights Day today and China is emphasizing the importance of "harmony," official media reports. Chinese human rights experts believe that peace and security are invariably interlinked with human ... Read More

"The Rise of Great Nations" - a recent Chinese miniseries that looked at how nations become world powers - has been the subject of heated discussion within China. Global Voices has ... Read More

An extremely rare imperial bowl from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor was sold for the record price of $19.2 million at an auction at Christie's Hong Kong last week. ... Read More

The Shanghaiist has got the skinny on a new golden statue recently erected in Changsha, capital of Hunan, to honor Chairman Mao's birthday. The 7 meter-high statue is plated ... Read More