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Visual artist Jaffa Lam at her studio in Fo Tan, Hong Kong. Photo: Eugene Chan
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

China’s Communist Party

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

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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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Illustration: Craig Stephens
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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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

Bridge over the River Yangtze? When a writer set out to investigate a 19th century murder in Yunnan province, he found himself immersed in the tale of Jiang Zonghan, an escaped slave turned general turned tycoon who took the fall for the killing before going on to build a mysterious bridge. Photo: David Leffman
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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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.

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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(From left) Yu Guming and Zine Tseng in a still from Netflix’s 3 Body Problem. The series brings to mind Wu Sangui, who is considered one of the worst traitors in Chinese history. Photo: Ed Miller/Netflix
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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Chan Kiu points to a front page picture he took for the Post. The photojournalist joined the newspaper in 1959 and remained there for 28 years until his retirement. Photo: Dickson Lee
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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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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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.

Flashback: Detectives examine the scene of a murder/attempted robbery at a watch store in Sham Shui Po in 1991. Photo: Wan Kam-yan.
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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China economy

Opinion | Banning clothes to protect Chinese ‘feelings’ signals an intolerant society

The amendment would give police discretion to enforce a vague dress code, undoing progress in China that saw the state recede from people’s daily lives.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Rest of the world may need to step in to pull US and China back from brink

The tensions between the US and China affect more than just the world’s two great powers, as everyone is a stakeholder in geopolitical rivalry. If better leadership is not forthcoming, the rest of the world will have to step up and stage a badly needed great power intervention.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
China economy

China Briefing | Xi’s Chinese dream in danger of being hijacked by ultra-left nationalism

The ultra-leftist revival threatens Xi’s plans to revive the economy and turn China into a dominant world power by 2049. It’s time to curb these ultra-nationalistic tendencies and return to pragmatic reform and development.

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China economy

Obituary | China’s ‘Mr Stock Market’ dead at 92, but his reform-minded influence endures

Li Yining mentored some of the Communist Party’s seniormost members, including Premier Li Keqiang, while his teachings continue to help guide China’s economic transformation.

Banking & finance

Mao’s former barefoot doctor recalls sole foreign takeover of Chinese bank

Shan Weijian was the co-managing partner of San Francisco-based private-equity firm Newbridge Capital when it took over a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank in 2005.

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Opinion | What China can learn from Deng Xiaoping about building trust with entrepreneurs

Nian Guangjiu, known for his Idiot Melon Seeds, won tacit approval from China’s paramount leader in the 80s, holding lessons for China today as it seeks to restore trust with private business.

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Legendary Chinese entrepreneur Nian Guangjiu, who once blazed a trail for private business in post-Mao China at great personal risks, died at 84 this month. Photo: Weibo
China economy

China needs to trust the power of capital to reboot its economy

Deng Xiaoping’s embrace of economic liberalisation unleashed a boom in private entrepreneurship in China, but the confidence that entrepreneurs had in Beijing to protect their interests has somewhat weakened in the past decade.

People walk past the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China in Beijing. Photo: Reuters
China's economic recovery

China’s rural supply cooperatives need private firms, former official says

Amid worries that China is heading down another planned-economy path, Hu Deping weighs in with a pro-market perspective and warning that a government-controlled rural cooperative economy must be avoided.

History

They swam to Hong Kong in waters that promised death to escape a worse fate

‘Freedom swimmers’ who made the treacherous journey from China to Hong Kong during the the Cultural Revolution, and police officers assigned to catch them, recall those dark days.

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