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Mainland China

China’s looted heritage campaign: assertive, ambitious – and complicated

As the United States steps back from cultural governance, China aims to reshape how the world reclaims looted heritage – with Japan its biggest test.

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My Life

He thought his life was a failure. Then he wrote it down.

Science

US fuels brain drain to China with Trump’s anti-science ‘Cultural Revolution’

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Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong revamping school history subjects, with Communist Party founding added

Education Bureau has announced significant changes to the framework for both the senior secondary Chinese history and history curriculums.

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Students take a look at a map of China in a gallery of the Hong Kong Museum of History. Photo: Elson Li
Open Questions series

Open Questions | Yan Lianke, Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize contender, on a writer’s role

Author of multiple books, some of them banned, considers Chinese literature’s place in the world and China’s soft power projection.

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United States

Opinion | Trump can learn from Xi how to make a country and its people great again

China’s president has tackled inequity, unleashed new productive economic forces and engaged with the global community. Trump could try it.

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United States

Opinion | What Trump should be making great again are the lives of Americans

Tariffs won’t shrink the inequalities in US society that result from globalisation. A better safety net, starting with healthcare, would.

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A homeless encampment in Oakland, California, on April 22, 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE
United States

Opinion | Trump seems to be taking a leaf out of Chairman Mao’s book

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

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Art

The end of Hong Kong’s golden age marked the start of her success

Artist Jaffa Lam’s practice describes a dynamic arc – like Hong Kong’s art scene itself – moving beyond cultural tradition to embrace the everyday and individual.

Profile

How Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan found his way in the industry

The Hong Kong filmmaker on the horrors of Hollywood, working his way up and exploring the handover.

Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan. Photo: SCMP / Jocelyn Tam
China’s Communist Party

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

Xi’s plan to glorify China’s deep cultural roots is embodied in Ruzang, a compilation of the philosopher’s writings and related works.

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China economy

Opinion | How can China’s reforms succeed when officials act like overbearing parents?

The ‘we-know-best’ mentality prevents market forces from playing a decisive role and affects investor confidence.

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Art

Artist Huang Yongyu showed his ‘relaxed’ side in new docu-film by Yonfan

Hong Kong director and photographer Yonfan is finally getting the recognition he deserves, with mainland censors deeming his Crossing Years docu about the late artist fit for the public.

China society

Opinion | China’s classroom culture of complaint is toxic – and not just for teachers

Educators are wary of what they say to students, fearful that it could cost them their job.

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Teachers are growing wary of what they say in the classroom as complaints from parents and students mount. Photo: Xinhua
China society

Opinion | How Chinese with disabilities are inspiring a more inclusive country

China must enforce its disability rights laws and improve accessibility, but social attitudes also need to shift beyond discrimination and pity.

Chinese Paralympian Jiang Yuyan reacts to the results of the women’s 400m freestyle race in Paris, France. Photo: Reuters
Human rights in China

Chinese artist held under law that bans defaming revolutionary ‘heroes’

Artist and his brother Gao Qiang are well-known for their critical depictions of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

China society

Editorial | A modern, powerful China the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, born 120 years ago

Paramount leader launched country on reform path that transformed nation from among the world’s least developed to a global force.

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China society

My Take | China’s censorship of cyberspace ID criticism risks losing a chance to improve

Chinese law requires new regulations to solicit public feedback, but legitimate concerns about giving netizens a single national ID are being silenced.

A man holds an iPhone as he visits Sina’s Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai on May 29, 2012. Photo: Reuters
History

Who built the first bridge over the Yangtze River?

Slave, soldier, tycoon … the true story of Jiang Zonghan, the Chinese general who took the fall for killing a British explorer, before building a mysterious bridge over Eurasia’s longest river

China’s Communist Party

Open Questions | Chinese legal scholar He Weifang makes his case for history and the rule of law

The retired academic speaks out about his country’s legal system, political reform, private enterprise protection, nationalism and why 2008 was China’s ‘first year’.

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Human rights

Open Questions | Chinese legal scholar: rule of law and market economy go hand in hand

Retired law professor He Weifang is an advocate for rule of law, championing concepts that undergird Western law such as protection of private property, business freedom and freedom of contract.

Chinese legal scholar advocates for rule of law and reminds people about the Cultural Revolution
Books and literature

Grandma, mother, daughter: an emotional story from China to US

Memories of three generations of women from Communist China, Hong Kong and California and the traumas they carried with them are at the heart of Feeding Ghosts, Tessa Hulls’ debut graphic novel.

Image of author Tessa Hulls. Hulls, now 39, wrote her first graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, published by Macmillan US this March. It’s raw, intense and honest, drawing and writing out stories of intergenerational trauma from 1920s China, to 1950s Hong Kong, to present-day USA that gave Hulls a much more nuanced understanding of not only her grandmother and mother, but also herself. Photo: Tessa Hulls
Lessons from China's history

Reflections | 3 Body Problem recalls one of Chinese history’s worst traitors

(Spoiler alert) A character in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem brings to mind a Chinese military leader who has been vilified as a traitor for nearly 400 years for allowing Manchu troops to overrun China.

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Hong Kong society

Obituary | Chan Kiu, veteran Hong Kong photojournalist for the Post, dies at 96

Veteran photojournalist had 40,000 rolls of film to his name, capturing major events such as the 1967 riots, Bruce Lee’s funeral and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to the city.

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TV shows and streaming video

3 Body Problem piracy in China shows some American shows can still break through

BitTorrent downloads topped 90,500 on the first day of release, far surpassing those of other popular Netflix series like Squid Game and Stranger Things.

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Netflix’s 3 Body Problem opens with a scene from the Cultural Revolution, something that was handled mostly through dialogue in the Tencent adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Photo: Netflix
China’s Communist Party

Obituary | Chinese scholar who helped lay legal foundation for market economy dies at 93

Jiang Ping was known as the ‘conscience’ of the profession and for his advocacy for the rule of law. He played a role in drafting key legislation including corporate, trust, contract and property laws.

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Jiang Ping told students in a speech that they should only “bow to the truth”. Photo: Handout
Crime in Hong Kong

Arrest of suspected murderer puts Hong Kong’s long crime wave back in spotlight

Arrest brings back memories of gunfights on the streets between police and armed gangs in 1980s-90s.

Women and gender

Opinion | China banning clothes that hurt national feelings would be a stitch too far

Proposal to criminalise clothes that hurt national feelings is a step too far. Concerns are already growing as young people wearing kimonos or T-shirts with rainbows are barred by security, even detained by police

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