Virginia Wu

Imagine you contracted polio and lose the ability to walk at the tender age of one. How are you going to get around?

The buildings in these photos may look like seven-star hotels or national capitols. Actually, they’re just local government buildings in China.

A U.K. woman married into a Chinese farming family expecting to live a traditional village life, but is desperate to return to England after seeing the family’s struggle against corrupt local cadres.

Ms. Li says that although she had watched Shen Yun DVDs while in China, attending the show in person was a completely different experience.

Li Fugui, 26-year-old baker, has been selling baked cakes for 50 Chinese cents (US$.08) each, for six years in Nanjing City, the capital of Jiangsu Province in China’s east, without changing the price once.

A Beijing detention center that holds Chinese petitioners without due process released an unknown but possibly large number of them without explanation earlier this week.

Rumors that the world will end on Dec. 21 have some Beijing residents stocking up on crackers, bottled water, and life preservers.

A recent report has shown that the lung cancer rate in Beijing’s metropolitan area has increased by 56 percent in the last decade.

The millions of college students who graduate in China each year now face a hard reality.