Chinese New Year arrived on February 16, along with many messages from my Chinese friends wishing me peace and safety in the Year of Yi Chang, otherwise known as the Year of the Abnormal. The sexagenary cycle, sometimes called Stems-and-Branches, is a calendar consisting of 60 types of combinations that originated in Ancient […]
I first visited Liu Xiaobo’s home in West Beijing in May 2008. Under the dim lights in his small living room, he answered my question about why he did not go abroad. “The children were killed, but the bearded man lived on. It defies imagination.” At first, I could not understand what […]
The Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo, 61, died on Thursday, July 13, after the government of China refused to let him seek treatment outside of his prison in Liaoning Province. It was barely two months since it was revealed in late June that he had been hospitalized, under the close watch of guards, due […]
The “overseas Chinese” community, which exercises great influence in Japan’s economic world, is about to suffer a great split. Taiwanese residents and immigrants, long connected to multiple organizations in Japan, are planning to form a new organization called the “All Japan Taiwanese Union” (AJTU), multiple sources confirmed. Most of the participants have […]
Chinese leaders will convene the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the fall of this year. But by March 7, it has been revealed that the Party is planning to carry out major organizational reforms at the Congress, including restoring the office of party chairman abolished in the 1980s. Multiple sources […]
Kim Jong-nam lost the struggle for ascendancy to the dictatorship of North Korea to his younger half-brother, Kim Jong-un but he won the protection of China around 2000. He traveled to Beijing, Macau, and throughout Southeast Asia while guarded by the Chinese authorities. He had women and children in three different places, and it is […]
