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SHANGHAI — They call her “poison tongue.” Jin Xing has verbally bitch-slapped TV hosts, stormed off sets and carved out a reputation as a straight-talker who does...
SHANGHAI — It’s a drizzly Saturday afternoon in April, and Teacher Gu is strutting confidently in front of his turf in this corner of People’s Park. Teacher Gu is...
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
BEIJING — Liu Xin and his boyfriend, Hu Zhidong, have opted for a destination wedding. They’re not heading to Venice, Hawaii or even Mexico. Rather, in June they’...
BEIJING — What do China’s “war on pollution” and campaign against corruption have in common? They’ve both placed China’s coal and oil empires in their cross...
TIANMU VILLAGE, Tianjin, China — Since his rise to power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that has targeted both decadent h...
BEIJING — Chinese authorities rang in Sunday’s International Women’s Day with a contradiction: celebrating the country’s first draft law on domestic violence wh...
San Francisco — Ai Weiwei, once China’s most internationally famous prisoner, is occupying Alcatraz — or at least his art installations are. Banned from traveling...
BEIJING — Public revulsion over China’s putrid air has been mounting for years, and now the country might have its gotten its own version of “An Inconvenient Trut...
BEIJING — China on Thursday suspended the import of ivory carvings for one year, marking a small step toward limiting the ivory demand that drives the slaughter of te...
In video footage shot Tuesday, a pig facing a date with the slaughterhouse is shown kneeling directly in front of a local Buddhist temple, as if in an act of prayer. ht...
URUMQI, China — Urumqi, the capital of northwest Xinjiang Province, is a city that operates on two clocks. Trains, planes and business hours tend to correspond to “...
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
Looking across this sea of anxious faces, it’s easy to forget this is a holiday. Knotted brows frame weary eyes in a crowd as deep as a football field, all of them wa...
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with leading Argentinian journalist Nelson Castro ...
