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  • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
    ‘What adjectives describe Xi Jinping?’ China’s new English textbook asks

    University language classes focus on the Chinese president’s experience and ideas to ensure a ‘correct worldview’

    Seated rows of students wave Chinese flags
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    News in-depthChinese business & finance
    China’s property revival plan threatened by stand-off over old neighbourhoods

    Beijing turns to past playbook of redeveloping poorer areas in hopes of revitalising troubled sector

    Clothes hang on wires in an old neighbourhood in Shanghai
  • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
    ObituaryIsabel Crook
    Isabel Crook, anthropologist and chronicler of China’s communist revolution, 1915-2023

    A sympathetic westerner who became a participant-observer as the country transformed

  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Special ReportFT Wealth: September
    The perils of investing in a boutique winery in China

    A passion for viniculture — and lots of money — is needed in a challenging climate and difficult market

    A casually dressed middle-aged man leans against a bar holding a glass of red wine
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Gideon Rachman
    China hits the east Asian demographic wall

    Like Japan and South Korea, China has a shrinking population but it has fewer ways to manage the change

    Illustration of Chinese president Xi Jinping riding a big red horse with yellow stars on it which is wading though deep mud
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    TED talks cross free speech ‘red line’ in Xi’s China

    Authorities cancel upcoming event citing breach of restrictions on foreign NGO activities

    An illustration of a microphone with the TEDx logo and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag
  • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
    Chinese feminists flock to see ‘Barbie’

    Cinemas increase showings of Greta Gerwig blockbuster in market dominated by action films and patriotic tales

    A screen outside a Beijing shopping mall
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    News in-depthChinese employment
    China’s youth left behind as jobs crisis mounts

    Crackdown on tech and slow post-Covid growth have left a generation of graduates with fewer options

    People look at postings at a job placement centre in China
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    China’s anxious parents turn to tutoring black market after Xi’s crackdown

    Fears for children’s progress mean classes thrive despite threat of fines

    Chinese schoolchildren
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    News in-depth
    China’s university exam promotes Xi’s cult of personality

    The notoriously challenging ‘gaokao’ is testing students on the president’s nationalist credo

    High school students in Handan, in China’s Hebei province
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    News in-depth
    Life in China’s oldest county exposes challenges of demographic crisis

    Primary schools become old people’s homes and factories struggle to find staff as population ages

    Elderly villagers play cards in Rudong county
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    A Chinese comedian walks into a political storm after army joke falls flat

    Punchline referring to military slogan sparks uproar and gloom over free expression in China

    Chinese honour guards
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast30 min listen
    China’s next generation

    Beijing leadership faces tough challenges to satisfy the ambitions of its youth

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    China’s local governments stuck with bill for neighbourhood surveillance

    Cash-strapped authorities struggle to reduce headcount and meet Beijing’s demands for greater security

    Security checks in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    India and China play down the big demographic news

    New Delhi and Beijing give little weight to long-projected population crossover

    A crowd of Indian citizens
  • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese employment
    China urges jobless graduates to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and try manual work

    State media says university-leavers should put their professional ambitions on hold and consider lower-skilled roles

    Graduates at a job fair at a university in Fiyang, Anhui province
  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    Chinese publishers ditch US books as geopolitical tensions mount

    Regulator delays authorisation of America-related titles and instead promotes critical volumes

    Readers visit Xianfeng Bookstore
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Demographics and population
    India to overtake China as world’s most populous country this year

    UN data marks a historic shift for the two Asian rivals

    People walk through the Sadar Bazaar in New Delhi, India
  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    ‘The hand of China reaches here’: how Beijing pushes Uyghurs to spy on each other overseas

    Xinjiang police try to manipulate Turkic Muslims abroad through offers of contact with family or threats to loved ones

    A Uyghur demonstrator in Turkey
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    News in-depth
    China’s fertility treatment rules push single women to Hong Kong

    Beijing faces calls to ease access to egg freezing and IVF amid demographic crisis

    Newborn babies at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong
  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese employment
    ‘Work until I die’: China’s over-50s cut out of job market in economic recovery

    Post-Covid rebound fails to reach ageing migrant workers as trade slumps and limited roles go to younger generation

    A migrant worker crosses a road after arriving on a long-distance bus in Beijing
  • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
    ObituaryJiang Yanyong
    Jiang Yanyong, surgeon and Sars whistleblower, 1931-2023

    The celebrated Chinese doctor suffered multiple political detentions

    Close up of Jiang Yanyong’s face
  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s billionaires pay the price for Xi’s Covid crackdown

    Total wealth of country’s richest falls 15% as lockdowns and property woes take toll

    A Gucci store in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    Switzerland
    Swiss banks say rich Chinese clients worried about sanction prospects

    Bank executives highlight concerns about business fallout from country’s tough line on Russia since Ukraine invasion

    View of the old city centre in Bern, Switzerland
  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    In charts: why women in China are climbing high — or quitting work

    Career or family? The dilemma is especially acute in the world’s second-biggest economy

    young woman commuting to work in urban downtown city street
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