Computer scientist Laura Edelson and China researcher Jessica Batke discuss some of what they learned over the course of ...

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Following a screening of How to Have an American Baby at Asia Society on June 25, filmmaker Leslie Tai joined ChinaFile ...

Chapter I: General Provisions. Article 1: Pursuant to the Constitution, this Law is enacted for the purposes of ensuring the just and prompt handling of administrative cases by the people's courts, ...

This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome ...

Article 5: The State takes measures for monitoring, preventing, and handling cybersecurity risks and threats arising both within and without the mainland territory of the People’s Republic of China.

Across China, in its most crowded cities and tiniest hamlets, government officials are on an unprecedented surveillance shopping spree. The coordination of the resulting millions of cameras and other ...

Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on December 17, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: The New Yorker On China.” (The full video appears above.) The evening, ...

In the mid-1950s, when I was a graduate student of Chinese history, the Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was invariably condemned as a reactionary hate figure; Mao Zedong was admired. In the ...

In most parts of the world, the United Front Work Department is known—if at all—as a secretive Chinese Communist Party organ conducting influence operations abroad. But in Gonghe Village, the local ...

On March 13, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could result in TikTok’s being unable to do business in the U.S.. The bill is called the ...

The KMT has expressed opposition to civil defense groups coordinating with the military in the event of a Chinese attack. It has also pushed to roll back anti-infiltration laws, including restrictions ...