Li Yan, a severely disabled 28 year-old woman, has lost all motor control because of a terminal cancer she has suffered since infancy and no longer wishes to live. ... Read More

City Weekend Shanghai is running article about how its Western-style medicine - improving in quality and boldly innovating - and traditional medicines are making China a top desination for "medical ... Read More

A Narrow Escape From Death: My ‘Right-wing’ Life, a book by a retired Xinhua journalist about his years in a Chinese labor camp, was recently banned by China’s General Administration ... Read More

Not to be outdone by glitzy Shanghai, the Bookworm - a sort of refuge for wayward laowai looking to take a deep breathe (perhaps literally in the case of polluted ... Read More

The fourth (?) annual Shanghai International Literary Festival, hosted by the fabulous M Restaurant Group, is gearing up for its final weekend in a month of lectures and readings by the likes ... Read More

Via Danwei A Chinese official recently warned that policies designed to decrease smoking in China were a threat to "social stability," citing riots when the former Soviet Union collapsed and smokers ... Read More

Mandarin (or putonghua) is China's official language, but only a little over half its population can speak effectively according to recent survey data published in the People's Daily. Foreign Policy Passport ... Read More

Some people say the one child policy has created a generation of young, spoiled Chinese short on basic life skills. No matter! If you're a newly-married couple, you ... Read More

"Reeducation through labor" or laojiao is a term that conjures images of thousands of intellectuals and other "bourgeois" disappearing to unknown fates; the Maoist answer to the Soviet gulag. ... Read More

Do you speak Chinese and another language? Consider becoming a volunteer for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. According to a report in China Daily: Some 100,000 volunteers from home and abroad will ... Read More

The Fifth Session of the 10th National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference kicked off yesterday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announcing, among other things, a new plan ... Read More

What to study Chinese in your free time? Chinese Pod is an excellent resource and probably the most well-known Chinese language learning podcast. Although subscribers have access to ... Read More

Guo Yun is a Chinese photographer who has lived and worked in Japan for 25 years. He also happens to be the grandson of one of China's most famous ... Read More

Oscar-winning Documentary Short Looks at China's AIDS Orphans The Blood of Yingzhou District, by Chinese American film director, Ruby Yang, and Producer Thomas Lennon, nabbed an Oscar last month for Best ... Read More

Scientists in Shandong Province have engineered a "remote control" pigeon that can respond to commands via a microchip and radio receiver implanted in its brain. You can see some ... Read More