Paul French studied history, economics, and Mandarin at university and has an MPhil in economics from the University of Glasgow. He is the author of a number of books, including the New York Times ...

On October 17, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin ordered Chinese state-owned seed and pesticide giant Syngenta, to sell its land holdings in the state in compliance with recently passed state ...

Rayhan Asat is one of the most vocal advocates today for the Uyghur people, her people, whose homeland in northwestern China is the scene of the Communist Party’s ongoing commission of what the United ...

The use of Uyghur forced labor in China’s so-called “reeducation camps” has been documented by journalists, scholars, and nonprofit organizations, based on eye-witness accounts, leaked official ...

I was surprised to encounter the White House amid Sichuan’s Qionglai Mountains, decrepit, looking like a scene out of a post-apocalyptic movie. Surprised, partly because I had not been in China long, ...

Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway links two provinces on Java Island — starting at Halim Station in East Jakarta and ending at Tegalluar Station in Bandung Regency — in around 45 minutes each ...

This is book No. 37 on Paul French’s Ultimate China Bookshelf. Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby’s Thunder Out of China (published 1946) Blurbs: “This provocative book, which has aroused a great ...

The generative AI fever currently running high in Silicon Valley has spread to the Chinese tech hubs of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Leading Chinese technology companies with financial resources, ...

Our Phrase of the Week is: Quiet quitting (糊弄学 hùnong xué). The context Lying flat (躺平 tǎngpíngìng) first appeared on the Chinese internet in 2021 as a reaction of China’s youth to the social ...

Last month, I returned home from a three-week academic trip to China. At almost any other point in the past 40 years, this would be a thoroughly unremarkable statement for me or any other American ...

I run a newsletter about learning Chinese, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to stay up to date on colloquial language, the slang and phrases used in daily life. One of the most helpful strategies ...

China has for the first time authorized a drug originally designed for patients with diabetes to be sold for weight-loss purposes, a move likely to pave the way for diet medications that have ...