A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China's eastern coast. Then comes another one as the assembly line continues, the sounds of sewing, stitching, cutting and soldering echoing off the high ceilings. "We used to sell around a million pairs of boots a year," says the 45-year-old sales manager, Mr Peng, who did not
Babel, which won fiction book of the year at the British book awards in 2023, is a speculative fiction novel by Kuang, a Chinese-American author also known for her novel Yellowface. No reason was given for the exclusions, which were revealed only on 20 January when the Hugo awards published the full nomination statistics for last year’s prize. Certain titles were listed as having been given votes,
Gallium and germanium: What China’s new move in microchip war means for world China has started restricting exports of two materials key to the semiconductor industry, as the chip war with the US heats up. Under the new controls, special licences are needed to export gallium and germanium from the world's second largest economy.
After unprecedented mass protests against zero-Covid, Chinese authorities have made their most decisive move yet to exit the punishing policy. On Wednesday, officials announced the end of forced centralised quarantine, allowing people with mild Covid to isolate at home, as well as limits to lockdowns, fewer checks of Covid test results, and freer travel around the country. It came after various ci
Jiang came to power after the Tiananmen Square protests and presided over high-speed growth.
Watch: Former leader of China, Hu Jintao, is led out by officials at the Communist Party Congress Chinese former leader Hu Jintao has been led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress. The frail-looking 79-year-old was sitting beside President Xi Jinping when he was escorted away by officials. There has been no official statement by the Chinese government concerning the incident
A rare protest attacking President Xi Jinping and China's Covid restrictions has taken place in Beijing, days before a historic Communist Party congress. Images showed two protest banners on a bridge in the north-west of the city. The protest appeared to have been swiftly stopped by the authorities.
Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year. After a months-long effort to investigate and authe
そこで、私が薛剣に面会を申し込んだところ、なんとまさかの快諾。10月20日に駐大阪総領事館内で長時間の取材に応じてもらえた。詳細は12月10日発売の『文藝春秋』2022年1月号に記したが、本誌では書ききれなかった話を記しておこう。 総領事館から援農活動まで徹底追跡 取材当日、私はスマホやクレジットカード、免許証などデジタル情報を読み取れるものはすべてホテルに置き、現金と保険証だけを入れたGPSタグ付きの財布とデータを初期化したiPad1枚のみを持参。取材中は唾液が残る可能性を考えて水も飲まず、イスや机に指紋がつかないようにも気を配った。 だが、出迎えた薛剣と2人の総領事館員に緊張感はまったく感じられなかった。のみならず、取材時の薛剣はなぜか私に対して「中国語が上手なんですね」「若い人が来て驚きました」と、そんな感想ばかりを口にした（理由は後述）。こちらのインタビュー内容は「中国の真の姿を見
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