National affairs
5 September 2025
Memorials to the violence against “comfort women” risk being hijacked by competitive victimhood
International
21 March 2025
The expulsion of social media’s “Yaya” has put a spotlight on the fine line between free speech and sedition in Taiwan
Books & arts
11 February 2025
Has Guan Hu made a film about the feral dogs of Chixia — or about China itself?
Books & arts
25 November 2024
Yuan Yang profiles a new generation of Chinese women
Books & arts
12 November 2024
A Chinese-Australian artist captures the legacies of twentieth-century communism
Books & arts
6 August 2024
A Taiwan-centred history of the island reveals a nation-in-the-making
International
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
Books & arts
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
International
8 January 2024
Could Taiwan’s 13 January election trigger a war with China?
International
24 November 2023
Hsiao Bi-khim’s impressive record might help save Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party from electoral defeat
International
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment
International
28 September 2023
A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
International
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
Books & arts
9 November 2020
Books | China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war
International
7 April 2020
The how, and the how many, of mourning the dead in China
International
17 February 2020
There are other things we should know about the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak
National affairs
4 December 2017
The historical record doesn’t support the claims repeated by the senator from New South Wales
International
5 September 2017
China’s conundrum in the Asia-Pacific creates an opportunity for Australia
6 December 2012
Antonia Finnane on art and the military in China
International
19 November 2012
There are plenty of full heads of hair in the new Politburo, but few of them are women’s, reports Antonia Finnane
2 November 2012
On the eve of China’s eighteenth party congress, life in Beijing is changing in increasingly obvious ways, writes Antonia Finnane
17 October 2012
The latest biography of Liang Qichao reveals a man of his times with a new significance for present-day China, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
Books & arts
1 October 2012
The forty years since Australia established relations with China have been about a lot more than trade and defence, writes Antonia Finnane
7 June 2012
Twenty-three years after the massacre, the events of 4 June 1989 are still off limits, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
23 May 2012
While the media was gripped by the Bo Xilai scandal, the story of another privileged child of a Communist Party official was unfolding on the internet, writes Antonia …
22 April 2012
In Beijing, Antonia Finnane looks at a ten-year plan for a staged transition to constitutional democracy
10 April 2012
After Tomb-sweeping day, the Chinese capital returned to normal, writes Antonia Finnane, except for the city’s Christians
National affairs
26 March 2012
If we want to engage or compete with universities in Asia, we need to be clear about the aims of our own education system