Inside Story

Correspondents Tony Abbott’s win attracted little interest among Beijingers. Does it matter? James Leibold 2 October 2013 The contrast with Kevin Rudd couldn’t be starker, yet the Anglophile PM might have a certain edge, writes James Leibold in Beijing Books & arts Holding the line Kerry Brown 27 August 2013 Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes Kerry Brown Correspondents China’s first top-100 global brand? James Leibold 25 August 2013 Four hundred million people have downloaded WeChat, a quarter of them outside China. And the figures are growing daily, reports James Leibold Correspondents Surveillance society James Leibold 4 July 2013 A high-tech system of social control is being superimposed on China’s network of urban neighbourhoods, writes James Leibold in Beijing

Books & arts Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing Kerry Brown 13 February 2013 China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown Correspondents Tibetans in the picture, the army on the scene Antonia Finnane 6 December 2012 Antonia Finnane on art and the military in China Correspondents Androgenetic alopecia at the eighteenth party congress Antonia Finnane 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 Correspondents Waiting for the great eighteenth 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

Correspondents The sound of silence in Tiananmen Square 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 Correspondents King Midas in China Antonia Finnane 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 … Correspondents Road to democracy? Yu Jianrong’s blueprint for China Antonia Finnane 22 April 2012 In Beijing, Antonia Finnane looks at a ten-year plan for a staged transition to constitutional democracy Correspondents Easter in Beijing Antonia Finnane 10 April 2012 After Tomb-sweeping day, the Chinese capital returned to normal, writes Antonia Finnane, except for the city’s Christians