There are increasing signs that China’s patience toward the protests in Hong Kong is wearing thin.
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Candidate Seeks Closer China Ties, Shaking Up Taiwan’s Presidential Race
Han Kuo-yu, the new star of the opposition Kuomintang, has galvanized older Taiwanese by pledging to roll back pension cuts and seeking closer ties to China.
lens: Poetry Meets Politics in Photos of China
Between violent flash points in history, Liu Heung Shing saw tenderness and subversive humor in societies saturated with propaganda.
Hong Kong Dispatch: A Trump Bump for Hong Kong’s Last Commercial Cantonese Opera Theater
Seeking new audiences, a troupe goes for something other than the traditional realm of historic battles, lost loves and palace drama. And it found President Trump.
In Beijing, a Communist Funeral for an Inconvenient Critic
The funeral for Li Rui, a former Mao aide who rejected the Communist Party’s authoritarianism, drew both the elite and ordinary people who celebrated him as a renegade.
A Photographer’s Quest to Reverse China’s Historical Amnesia
The Chinese photographer Li Zhensheng has been on a decades-long mission to make his country remember the Cultural Revolution.
Further reading: Do You Want to Read More About China?
Here are some suggestions from the Times Book Review archives to get you started.
China’s Leader Says Party Must Control ‘All Tasks,’ and Asian Markets Slump
The Chinese president marked 40 years of economic liberalization by arguing that the Communist Party’s firm control must not waver.