Embark on an intriguing journey of discovery into how high-level Chinese party and government off...

Detective Ran Dongong is the first at the scene when the body of a dead young woman is found floa...

During the Cultural Revolution, Mei comes of age in a once-grand courtyard dominated by her grand...

For Zhang Zuo, his father's darkest moments hold tender memories. Abandoned by his parents, his N...

My Thirty Years in China is a collection of autobiographies of select foreign pioneers of busines...

Imagine what it's like to effectively organise and develop a political party with over 65 million...

As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, w...

Cadres (senior party or government officials) have played a significant role throughout Chinese h...

The people of Yanjin know to always have a few jokes on hand.

China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the bu...

1947, and the final bloody chapters of the Chinese Civil War unleash a tidal wave of Red across t...

The Communist Party of China was founded in Shanghai in July 1921. From humble beginnings it has ...

Echoing Lu Xun's portrayal of useless scholars, Yang Zhengguang's psychodrama satirises the chauv...

A raw deal can leave you dead in the water

Han Meilin is a titan of contemporary Chinese art, from Olympic mascots to the tails of planes, h...

Kerry Brown began his life in nineties China almost by chance, cutting his teeth in its northern ...

1960s China, and society is commanded to rebel against tradition.

Home Village portrays a rural Chinese village navigating the precarious waters of the early 20th ...

A dentist''s girlfriend with cavities, an elderly career criminal with no-one to turn to but the ...

A collection of four short stories on the brutal realities of family life in modern China. When a...

For generations, Wang Changchi's family have dreamed of escaping their poverty-stricken village. ...

In these tales of bite-sized misdeeds, the 'boys' of Nanjing's underground literati spend their n...

The port of Tianjin is where the ancient Chinese empire met the sea. The turn of the 20th century...

Qianmei's cancer is terminal, and everyone except her knows it.

When rumours spread of corruption, Mayor Li Gaocheng is determined to find the truth. However, a ...

The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in...

The people of China tell of an ancient tale, where the mantis hunts the cicada, unaware of the ye...

Since taking office, General Secretary Xi Jinping has promoted the 'Chinese Dream of National Rej...

Shanghai was the economic center of the far east in the early 20th century, when it was known as ...

In a cave high in the ageless mountains of China's desolate interior, an ancient funeral singer a...

Two brothers, Tashi and his elder brother, Dawa, tend their family''s flock of sheep on the mount...

Jean de Miribel arrived in China in July 1976. The tall, genial foreign-language expert joined th...

Scott Kronick is President and CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations, Asia Pacific. A 28-year veteran of...

I''m no longer Zhang Delun. I am 58909.

1966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been ...

My Uncle Zhou Enlai paints a candid and heartwarming picture of one of China's most beloved leade...

China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the bu...

Thirteenth century China, and the Song Empire is crumbling due to endemic corruption and the incu...

Honoured Investors

In 1926, the walled city of Wuchang, now part of modern-day Wuhan, lay under siege for forty days...

Wu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from t...

1927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL.

Smooth Diao's day is going anything but.

Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruo's teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijing's h...

Fang Meng'ao's mission to better Peking attracts Inspector General Zeng Keda, who hunts communist...

Growing up in a glittering new decade of possibility, Anran is radically different to her sister....

At a turning point in the Chinese Civil War, a secret codebreaking unit led by Chief Zeng is key ...

In the early years of the PRC, Fujian was something of a poisoned chalice. Its proximity to Taiwa...