This new campaign was described by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption that it wreaked on China and its economy lasted for nearly a decade. It is estimated ...

Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans ...

Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the last two weeks I have visited Beijing and Hong Kong. This visit made clear that in today’s ...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...