How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.

How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?

The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.

A cabbie and a passenger discuss Chinese economics and generational gaps.

How a poet and an architect rescued a nation’s riches.

The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness moves to China to proselytize.

Jonathan Kos-Read’s long, strange trip to movie stardom.

An $140 million blockbuster written and funded by a billionaire, ‘Empires of the Deep’ was supposed to be China’s ‘Avatar,’ featuring mermaids, Greek warriors, pirates, sea monsters, and an even international stars.

Six years after being filmed, the movie has never seen the light of day.

Four men stood on the edge of the Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission, threatening to jump in protest. They referred to themselves as “China’s 21st century eunuchs,” damaged by medically-dubious surgeries.

The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.

Why China’s super-rich send their children west.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.

Two men try to disrupt the gray market of Chinese death services.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

The Chinese want to steal our genetically-engineered grain secrets. Why?

A Chinese underwear merchant rises in Egypt.

Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

Booze, sex, and the dark art of dealmaking in China.

How a reporter’s assistant got into trouble with Beijing security.