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Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, prominent figures advocating for improved civil rights, given lengthy jail terms in latest crackdown on dissent
A Chinese court has sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers to jail terms of more than a decade each, a relative and rights groups say, in the latest move in a years-long crackdown on civil society by President Xi Jinping.
Xu Zhiyong, 50, and Ding Jiaxi, 55, were put on trial behind closed doors in June last year on charges of state subversion at a court in Linshu county in the north-eastern province of Shandong, relatives said at the time.

A new glass case display, “Toys and Teapots from China, Japan, and South Korea,” is being showcased at Norway Memorial Library at 258 Main St. Sherri Otterson of Norway lived in Okinawa, Japan, for 21 ...

With a wide range topics and subgenres covered, here are some great romantic comedies with Asian-American lead characters.

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday after a report Friday showed resilience in the U.S. jobs market. European markets were closed for Easter holidays. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo and Seoul but ...

The Massillon Museum will exhibit “Finding Identity: Heritage as Inspiration” in its Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery through May 21. It complements the Museum’s 2023 NEA Big Read book selection, ...

Two former top State Department officials who served under the Trump administration are warning of China's plans to use U.S. green energy goals to their advantage.

Mao’s Cultural Revolution pitted children against their parents and tore at the fabric of China’s society. It’s vital to the understanding of China today, says Red Memory author Tania Branigan
History is more important to Xi Jinping than to any leader since Mao. So argues the Guardian’s Tania Branigan, author of an acclaimed new book . She tells Michael Safi that there’s one era of China’s history that looms over Xi more than any other: the Cultural Revolution.
It’s a period that transformed Xi’s own life: a decade of unbelievable turmoil in China. Hierarchies that held the country together were turned on their heads. At the direction of Mao Zedong, children turned on their parents, husbands denounced their wives. More than 2 million people died. Tens of millions of lives were torn apart.

Disney+ Hotstar will stream American Born Chinese, an action comedy television series based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang, on 24 May.

Shopping online at Temu, Laurie Silva paid just $1.25 for earrings and $15 for a cardigan -- she is among millions of US consumers the Chinese platform is wooing with low-cost bargains and a dizzying ...

China's military carried out its third day of "combat readiness patrols" near the self-governing island of Taiwan in retribution for Taiwanese leaders meeting with U.S. officials.

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday after a report Friday showed resilience in the U.S. jobs market. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo and Seoul but fell in Shanghai. Markets were closed in Hong Kong ...