Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China’s defenses. The 16th-century Yaoziyu Fort, for example, is the best preserved of ...

The 2026 edition of the Hehe Culture Forum opened in Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, on October 27. The term "Hehe" combines two Chinese characters meaning "harmony" and "cooperation," respectively ...

“Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell wrote. Rewriting history, as for any authoritarian regime, is the bread and butter of the Chinese Communist Party — and absolutely essential ...

Xi Jinping has tightened the Chinese Communist Party’s grip at home and expanded China’s influence abroad. Explore how Xi’s policies have reshaped China and the world. Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

The Communist Party has anointed him one of its revered leaders, paving the way for an already powerful leader to wield even greater influence. By Chris Buckley Xi Jinping’s drive to extend his ...

As the Chinese Communist Party turns 100 this month, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with historian Andy B. Liu about the mark it's made on the country. One hundred years ago this month, a small group of ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward ...

The fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. is intensely tragic for individuals and damaging to society, but it is not without precedent. For nearly a century, widespread Chinese addiction to opium destroyed ...

At the U.S.-China summit in September 2026, both leaders spoke of the fact that the United States and China had been allies in World War II and had fought together. Of course, the United States and ...