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China
International
The Netflix series changing Taiwanese politics
Antonia Finnane
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
National affairs
A pause in the thaw?
Hamish McDonald
27 June 2023
Signs suggest the warming of Australia–China relations has slowed to a glacial pace
Books & arts
The silence that makes sense of modern China
Linda Jaivin
13 June 2023
Two new books excavate everyday experiences of the Cultural Revolution
Books & arts
Ambiguous embrace
Hamish McDonald
3 April 2023
Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific
Books & arts
Dictating democratisation
Liam Gammon
17 March 2023
Democracy has spread in a distinctive way among Asia’s success stories
International
What next for China?
Rana Mitter
23 December 2022
Challenges at home are contributing to a tentative shift in relations with the West
Books & arts
China’s forgotten reformer
Linda Jaivin
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
Essays & reportage
Science and uncertainty: China’s Covid dilemma
John Fitzgerald
6 December 2022
Behind the hardline policy is a quest for perfection that dates back to the Communist Party’s founding
International
Chinese nationalism under pressure
Yun Jiang
6 December 2022
Attitudes are changing within the young urban population
Books & arts
China’s greatest enemy
Kerry Brown
20 October 2022
Did Beijing set out to mislead the West about its intentions — and did it succeed?
International
“Will this ever end?”
Kerry Brown
3 October 2022
How long can Xi Jinping’s government ignore the costs of its zero-Covid policy?
National affairs
Why an invasion of Taiwan would fail
John Quiggin
14 September 2022
Russia’s disastrous miscalculations in Ukraine show why an invasion of Taiwan would be a grave mistake
Books & arts
China syndromes
Kerry Brown
4 September 2022
Both Britain and Australia need to overcome a curious amnesia about their dealings with China
International
Little Pinks and their achy breaky hearts
Linda Jaivin
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
International
Jostling giants
John Edwards
30 November 2021
Does America really need a novel strategy to counter China’s rise?
International
Last call for China’s drinking culture?
Linda Jaivin
28 October 2021
China is waking up to the downside of its world-beating level of alcohol consumption
Books & arts
Conquered by China
Graeme Dobell
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant
National affairs
China can easily manage a property crash. That’s the problem
Adam Triggs
12 October 2021
The Chinese government’s power to control the fallout from a property crash is a reminder of just how far it has to go — and how far it has gone backwards — in freeing its…
Books & arts
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Hamish McDonald
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
International
Divining the Plenum
Kerry Brown
7 October 2021
Next month’s plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee will be anything but normal
International
Shooting down the “girlie guns”
Linda Jaivin
4 October 2021
Beijing’s crackdown on
niangpao
reflects anxieties dating back to Europe’s nineteenth-century incursions
From the archive
Home is where the mind is
Robin Jeffrey
27 September 2021
How two sons of empire became leading public intellectuals
Books & arts
Death in Shanghai
Linda Jaivin
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
Books & arts
Lupine or supine?
Graeme Smith
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
International
First kisses and invisible red lines
Linda Jaivin
3 September 2021
Chinese podcasts offer revealing, moving and sometimes funny insights into life in the People’s Republic
International
A dissident’s lament
Kerry Brown
19 August 2021
Xu Zhangrun has more to offer that simple dissent
Essays & reportage
The Resolve poll that resolves very little
Murray Goot
5 July 2021
How skilfully has the
Age
and the
Sydney Morning
Herald
’s new pollster gauged opinion on quarantine, cutting emissions, and China?
From the archive
Shanghai, July 1921
Linda Jaivin
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
International
Beijing’s war on memory
Louisa Lim
9 June 2021
The speed and range of the crackdown in Hong Kong has been dizzying
Books & arts
Beijing blackout
Mark Baker
21 May 2021
The departure of Australia’s last correspondents from Beijing has made a volatile situation worse
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