As August 8 approaches, it's time for Beijing residents to decide where they'll spend the games, if they haven't already: will they stay in the city and experience the Olympics first-hand, or escape to someplace quiet and wait out the three...

At Peking University to give a speech yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was presented with a photograph by his former Chinese teacher Fu Min. Mr. Geithner, who arrived in Beijing on Sunday,...

The administrators of Chinese websites are putting in a period of inaccessibility on their sites for a period of two to three days starting with the Tıаnanmen anniversary tomorrow.

Tiananmen at night Online magazine Slate's Daniel Gross, currently traveling through China, introduces a short post on Marxism in contemporary Chinese society with a surprising historical claim: When you stand in Tiananmen Square and look toward the...

Morning Post. November 27, 2009 The top headline on today's Morning Post (北京晨报) concerns neighborhood volunteer teams that are going to go around this weekend and "fine" people using their computers to go on the Internet. Their reasoning?...

Penguin recently published a new translation of Lu Xun's works, The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China. The famous Chinese author's grandson, Zhou Lingfei (周令飞) was in Beijing for the launch of the book. Also on Tudou. Earlier on...

A dorm room in Beijing Ralph Jennings is a journalist and long time resident of China. He currently lives in Taipei. From mid-2000 to 2006, he had an advice column in the 21st Century weekly newspaper in which he answered letters from thousands of...

The Beijing News November 26, 2009 Today's Beijing News' top story and large graphic is about the arrest of at least four men suspected by police on suspicion of football (soccer) match fixing and arranging illegal gambling. From Xinhua: The...