Chinese police are holding 11 people who planned to attend today’s trial of an activist who investigated the death of schoolchildren in last year’s Sichuan earthquake, a high-profile artist and government critic amon...

Deng Yujiao, the waitress who fatally stabbed a government official after he made sexual advances towards her, went on trial and was charged with causing injury with intent. From Reuters, via Washington Post: A Chinese waitress who killed a governme...

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained that the Obama administration is taking an approach of “principled pragmatism” in dealing with human rights issues in China and elsewhere, the Chinese government has rejected calls from the EU and the...

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Below, a 1975 documentary on barefoot doctors. From the video’s introduction (H/T China Study Group): Before the establishment of the People’s Republic, medical services were almost nonexistent here, as in most agricultural areas throughout China....

Bloomberg profiles Xie Zhenhua, former head of China’s state environmental protection agency and now the country’s chief negotiator in Copenhagen: Xie, who resigned after an explosion at a PetroChina Co. plant spilled toxic chemicals into the Songhua...

The Times visits activist Feng Zhenghu, who has been living at Narita Airport in Tokyo for six weeks after being denied entry to China: Mr Feng is a dissident, an economist and self-taught lawyer who made a name for himself in his native Shanghai as...