A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine
First of two partsIt's not often that a book comes out that rewrites a country's history. But that's the case with Tombstone, which was written by a retired Chinese reporter who spent 10 years secretly...
View ArticleRecording The Untold Stories Of China's Great Famine
Second of a two-part series. Find the first part here.A young man trudges doggedly around his village, notebook in hand, fringe flopping over his glasses. He goes from door to door, calling on the...
View ArticleWill China's First Lady Outshine Her Husband?
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View ArticleChina's Communists Declare War ... On Boring Meetings
Suffer from insomnia? The droning rhythm of a Chinese Communist official reading a work report out loud will likely do the trick.It certainly does for many party members: Just 10 minutes into any party...
View ArticleA Tumultuous Year, Seen Through North Korean Eyes
North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range rocket as it rounds off a tumultuous year marked by the sudden death of leader Kim Jong Il last December, the ascension of his 20-something son, and the...
View ArticleHunger Still Haunts North Korea, Citizens Say
While North Korea has long struggled with dire food shortages, the United Nations now assesses its food situation as being the best in many years. But NPR has had unusual access to five North Koreans...
View ArticleChina Pledges Reforms To Labor Camps, But Offers Few Details
China has indicated that it will stop handing down sentences to its controversial labor camps, which allow detention without trial for up to four years. According to Chinese media, some 160,000...
View ArticleBecome A Successful Chinese Bureaucrat, In 5 Easy Steps
Forget Fifty Shades of Grey. In China, "bureaucracy lit" is flying off bookstore shelves. With the books' stories of Machiavellian office politics, they're read avidly, both as entertainment and as...
View ArticleHow Will China's New Leadership Handle Censorship Issue?
In China, one struggle over censorship has been defused — for the moment, at least.Journalists at one of the country's boldest newspapers have published a new issue after a weeklong standoff that...
View Article'Friends' Will Be There For You At Beijing's Central Perk
Almost a decade since the end of the hit American TV series Friends, the show — and, in particular, the fictitious Central Perk cafe, where much of the action took place — is enjoying an afterlife in...
View ArticleAmerican Woman Gives Domestic Abuse A Face, And Voice, In China
The faces of American Kim Lee and her Chinese husband, Li Yang, both in their 40s, once graced the covers of books that sold in the millions.
View ArticleNational People's Congress Opens, Prepares For Leadership Change
On the opening day Tuesday, Premier Wen Jiabao delivered his version of the State of the Union address. He's due to step down next week. The annual legislative meeting marks the official transition to...
View ArticleIn China, Baby's Brutal Death Raises Questions For Many About Nation's Values
A tale of two car thefts has transfixed China, sparking a new bout of soul-searching. It's generated far more attention online than the ongoing legislative session in Beijing, despite leaked orders...
View ArticleWhile U.S And South Korea Militaries Drill, 'Bombast Continues' From The North
As NPR's Louisa Lim reported Monday on Morning Edition, a week of inflamed rhetoric from North Korea — including talk of a preemptive nuclear strike on the U.S. — is being followed by word that the...
View ArticleTibetan Customs Include Horse Races ... And Paramilitary Police?
In the exiled Tibetan calendar, March 10 is an emotive day, the anniversary of a failed uprising in 1959.
View ArticleFrom Police Chief To Political Office, Jobs Are For Sale In China
China's new president, Xi Jinping, who was formally elected Thursday, is already engaged in his own anti-corruption campaign, threatening to go after the key players — the tigers as well as the...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Stepped-Up Rhetoric: Is It More Than Talk?
North Korea has cut its last military hotlines with South Korea and yet again stepped up its rhetoric, rattling nerves in the region.Thousands of North Koreans rallied in central Pyongyang, chanting...
View ArticleFor Chinese Women, Marriage Depends On Right 'Bride Price'
Women hold up half the sky, China's Chairman Mao famously said. But in China, the one-child policy and the traditional preference for boys mean that 117 boys are born for every 100 baby girls. By one...
View ArticleChasing The Chinese Dream — If You Can Define It
Forget about the American dream. Nowadays, the next big thing is the Chinese dream.
View ArticleChinese Dreams: Freedom, Democracy And Clean Air
"What is your Chinese dream?"With Chinese leaders and the state-run media now talking about the notion of the Chinese dream, we posed this question on our NPR Weibo account. In China, Weibo is the...
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