Author Shuan Rein says the West's "free ride" may be over

Will Beijing’s air be the end of you? Maybe not.

Beijing noise-pop darlings return to the fray with their latest album

Will Chinese money ruin the Hollywood flicks you love?

A poignant installation – if you can find it

Explore military battlegrounds and period buildings.

Concerts, masterclasses and eager young violinists come to Beijing Music.

A well-told romantic tragedy from South Korean director Kim Tae-yong.

‘Phantom’ structures litter Beijing. What went wrong, we wonder.

Shanghai-bound Tel Aviv art rockers talk Spike Lee and Israeli music

The world’s greatest ambassador of the cello.

Remove the mask of the present, and underneath lies the deep, personal well of our memories. Chen Qingqing keeps hers in boxes.

Popular US podcast This American Life has retracted the episode ‘Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory’ after discovering not just inaccuracies but fabrications in what its author, Mike Daisey, presented as a factual account of terrible work conditions in Shenzhen manufacturing plant Foxconn.

Well, there’s a big canal project, but mostly we’ve been getting by through stealing water from Hebei. Really, we should be on water rationing, but that’s why it’s nice to be the capital. We do OK, even if everyone else is bone dry.’