Gu Chunqiu

China’s biggest banks reported a surge in soured and castoff loans in the first half of the year, as China’s slowing growth has taken a toll on its lenders.

A white paper meant to chasten democratic longings in Hong Kong has alarmed Taiwan, pushing its people farther away from the People’s Republic of China.

A former China Central Television news anchor, banned for his criticism of the 1989 student movement, returns to the limelight with a tell-all book.

Before renouncing the Chinese Communist Party became a mass movement, three top Party leaders wished to register their rejection of the Party by withdrawing from it.

The sale by Hong Kong’s wealthiest man of the supermarket chain ParknShop has been the occasion for discontent.

Newly published data show that income inequality in China is large and widening, a trend that is correlated with political instability.

Drinking water is poisoning people in China, and the state seems unable to report accurately on what is happening.