When I look at my face, I see a collection of people,” Hook writes. “‘What are you?’ actually means “Tell me a story that ...

Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in Virginia and Michigan, and ...

This year is the 35th anniversary of the 1989 mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and elsewhere around China, and their brutal suppression on June 4. The memories of these events are ...

This series of FAQs addresses the steps necessary for a foreign NGO to file a temporary activity in mainland China. Under the Foreign NGO Law, there are two ways a foreign NGO is permitted to operate ...

Wang Xiao is the pen name of a contributor to the online magazine Mang Mang.

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado is Founder and Executive Director of the Andrés ...

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 ...

Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author. Prior to moving to Taiwan in 2015, Horton wrote about China’s economic and social transformation throughout the 2000s, primarily from Kunming and ...

In an autocracy, atomized individuals, without power or influence, seem to have only two options: willingly serve as “social livestock,” or accept their fate and lie flat. But in a society as large as ...

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the Executive ...