No-one in China is lower on the totem pole than farmers and villagers. When they migrate to cities to work in factories, they are treated like dirt. So what happened to Mao Zedong’s communist revolution? The revolution was supposed to improve the lot of the rural poor. We visit a part of rural China where Mao once lived. Mao went there to educate himself about the conditions of the farming class. But decades later, the descendants of the people Mao interviewed aren’t much better off, at a time when other Chinese are enriching themselves.
China is spending billions of dollars to improve its international image, yet it is also ramping up anti-foreigner rhetoric.
Blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, has left the US embassy in Beijing, after being sheltered there for six days. But there is confusion over what will happen to the blind lawyer now.
Evidence suggests that hacking into and stealing data from the computers of strategic US companies, research labs and government departments is one of China’s favored tools.
China’s state-run media announced Tuesday night that a high-level Communist party chief has been demoted and his wife is being investigated in the murder of a British businessman.
Over the weekend, China cracked down on Internet use, including shutting off the comments section of the Chinese version of Twitter – Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo.
China says that all new lawyers in China now have to take an oath of loyalty to the Communist Party. Some critics say the government is just dispensing with the fiction that it doesn’t interfere with the rule of law.
There was a time, in the ‘90s, when the Chinese Communist Party at least talked the talk of legal reform and moving toward genuine rule of law [...]
China’s government often says that democracy isn’t appropriate for a Chinese Confucian culture. But Chinese pro-democracy activists in Taiwan say democracy works just fine there. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story.
As Myanmar opens up after decades of autocratic military rule, there is a huge push there to learn English and to restore the country’s reputation as an education hub.
A Chinese envoy heads to Syria Tuesday to encourage a ceasefire there. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad takes a look at far China is willing to go when it comes to intervening in the unrest there.
Myanmar (Burma) is holding parliamentary elections in April, and there’s a feeling of palpable change in what was until recently among the most isolated countries on the planet. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad returned to Myanmar for the first time in 17 years to bring us these stories.
Myanmar (Burma) is changing fast and that includes new opportunities for entrepreneurs. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad met up with a Burmese-American and his Burmese partner who are trying to get an import business off the ground there.
It’s tempting as a China correspondent to look at the political changes sweeping Burma, and imagine their equivalent happening in China [...]
