Chinese society

They “sincerely” put the interests of the people in heart.

Some support the direct signage; others say it harms civil society.

Critics will find confirmation of some of their most biting assessments of the Chinese regime in a recent survey done by—a Communist Party mouthpiece?

Two young girls died and another 30 children were sickened, after eating snacks containing banned rodenticide at a kindergarten in rural southwest China.

16 infants are dead after receiving vaccines in China over the last month, but because of ties with authorities the vaccine companies needn’t worry about repercussions.

Chinese society thus is strictly divided into rural and urban by a system called hukou, or household registration, and it extends across generational lines.

Some satirical poems on social status and morals under the communist regime.

Chinese human rights attorney Jiang Tianyong, who was arrested in February as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to nip a homegrown “Jasmine Revolution” in the bud, recently broke his silence about what went on while he was in custody.

In China, which accounts for 25 percent of all the world’s suicides, an average of 287,000 people—or one every 2 minutes—commit suicide every year, and 2,000,000 attempt suicide but are unsuccessful.

An explosion of a 0.5 ton pressure boiler in a hospital in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed three and injured 17 over the weekend.

Opponents say the message promotes materialism over romantic love.

Parts of two bridges, both less than 15 years old, spontaneously collapsed in different areas of China.

Chinese Society rocked by violence, disasters and corruption in 2010

The recent several-days-long traffic north of Beijing is a symptom of another kind of jam that affects all China.

Zhao graduated from a local junior high school the year before. Nicknamed “sheep,” villagers said he was an “obedient kid.”