Many people know about the Great Depression, or the Syrian refugee crisis, but not as many people know about the Great Chinese Famine, another tragic event in history. The famine started with Chairman ...

It's not often that a book comes out that rewrites a country's history. But that's the case with Tombstone, which was written by a retired Chinese reporter who spent 10 years secretly collecting ...

Mao Zedong is the greatest mass murderer in human history. Historians estimate his total number of innocent deaths as between 60-70 million from his accession to power in 1949 until his death in 1976.

The gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong’s Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy—at carefully reckoned prices—even the most dubious currencies. But last week they ...

SHIZIGANG, China (Reuters) - Poor Chinese farmers facing forced resettlement for their nation's latest vast hydro project bear a wrenching past, none more so than the survivors of an exodus to the ...

Broiling sun beat down on Hankow, China last week. It was nearly 100°. On the roofs of their rickety houses, Chinese hoisted scraps of cloth for shade and gazed glumly at muddy water, five to 15 feet ...

When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, ...