Sep 13, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Tycoon’s Eight-Hour Escape Exposes Failings of a Model Chinese Prison
- His swift recapture unraveled a story of illicit love, massive state-owned enterprise plunder, and a prison system corrupted from the inside
Sep 06, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: How Rock-and-Roll Saved a Remote Chinese School
- In a mountainside village in Guizhou province, a teacher’s music lessons turned ‘left-behind’ children into viral stars, reviving a dying school and offering students a path out of poverty
Aug 30, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: China’s Stand-Up Comedy Boom Faces a Reality Check
- An industry hothoused by hit TV shows is grappling with growing pains, regulatory scrutiny and the tough business of making money from laughs
Aug 09, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why Concerns About a Collapse in China’s Demand Are Overblown
- Pessimistic predictions for the second half often oversimplify four challenges confronting the country’s economy
Jul 19, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: ‘De Facto Orphans’ Find a Home — for Now
- In rural China, one man’s nonprofit cares for children with parents who either can’t or won’t care for them. But as donations dry up, it faces a crisis
Jul 12, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: How China’s Slowing Economy Is Shaking Up Consumer Spending Habits
- A profound shift is underway as consumers prioritize personal wellness over material possessions, forgo big-city splurges for small-town travel, and pivot from luxury goods to essential items that provide a lot more bang for the buck
Jul 05, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Local Losses Are a Price Worth Paying to Consolidate China’s Chip Industry
- The tech giant seeks to get its business relationships on surer footing as it faces fiercer competition in the smart driving market
Jun 14, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: How China’s Renewables Can Meet Electricity Demand
- Renewables have been adding to rather than replacing coal power capacity. A mandatory green power consumption policy could change this
Jun 07, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Remembering Luminary Economist Stanley Fischer
- The MIT professor helped shape the foundations of New Keynesian economics and influenced generations of economists and policymakers
May 24, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why the Economy Is Key to Calming Online Rage in China
- As long as reform efforts continue, online public opinion will be manageable, with its intensity and consequences absorbed by development itself, writes public relations expert Yan Zhihua
May 17, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Hong Kong Bids Farewell to Legendary Investor and Transparency Advocate
- Independent investor and corporate governance advocate David Webb, now suffering from terminal cancer, has spent much of his life exposing hidden networks and fighting for minority shareholders in Asia’s financial hub
May 10, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Will China Fulfill Its Key Climate Pledge?
- As progress has slowed sharply, China needs stronger targets to meet its Paris Agreement goals
Apr 30, 2025 20:23 PM- Weekend Long Read: How to Stop Northeast China’s Population From Shrinking
- The total population of the three northeastern provinces has fallen by more than 11 million over the past decade. To reverse the decline, the region needs to reinvent its cities
Apr 26, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Guy Ullens, Collector Who Championed Chinese Contemporary Art, Dies at 90
- Ullens ‘believed above all in the power of art to enrich lives and create connections across cultures,’ UCCA’s director Philip Tinari said in tribute
Apr 19, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why, When, and How to Regulate AI
- Debate should move away from abstract consideration of what rules might constrain or contain AI behavior, and get into the more practical challenges of lawmaking
Apr 12, 2025 09:30 AM- Weekend Long Read: What China Can Learn From Germany’s Battle of Economic Ideas
- Renowned Chinese economist Wu Jinglian says Chinese economists should learn from the theoretical debate in German academia between ordoliberalism and Keynesianism, and the twists and turns of Germany’s economic development
Apr 05, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Why China Should Get Tougher on Smog
- Stricter air quality standards will enhance public health and drive energy transition efforts, paving the way for a cleaner and more sustainable future
Mar 29, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: How China’s Pampered Pets Fuel a $40 Billion Market
- Spending on people’s furry friends soars as young Chinese opt for puppy love over parenthood
Mar 22, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Dealing With Dementia
- One family’s ordeal shows how the disease, which is a growing problem in China, could impact the country as the population ages
Mar 15, 2025 09:00 AM- Weekend Long Read: Unpacking China’s Fisheries Law Overhaul
- In the biggest revision since 2000, the reforms will impact the lives of the estimated 16 million Chinese who depend on fishing to make a living
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