Recent decades have seen a resurgence of nostalgia for the Mao era — despite its horrors — due in part to its utopian official outlook and fervent patriotic spirit. Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model. Read more
China adopted new legislation, the Patriotic Education Law, in October, justifying it in the name of “national and ethnic unity and security.” However, the contents of the law reveal the int... Read more
Yang Guang's rise from a village farmer to an Audi-driving businessman with two properties hinged largely on one of the most coveted documents in China: an urban hukou, or residency per... Read more
