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List of ChinaFile articles
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China Left Right What it Means to Be ‘Liberal’ or ‘Conservative’ in China
Putting the country's most significant political divide in context.
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A woman walks past the logo of Baidu at Disarming the Great Cannon
China thinks its cyberattacks are a defensive maneuver. How can the United States prevent the balkanization of the global Internet?
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Takaki Yajima-Pool/Getty Images Washington’s Big China Screw-up
U.S. efforts to oppose a $50 billion China-led infrastructure bank have backfired. Experts explain why.
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Weibo/Fair Use A Chinese Woman Walks Into a Men’s Room …
… and ends up in the cross-hairs of state security. What happened?
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WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images When Will China’s Government Collapse?
A look at whether or not the Chinese Communist Party is doomed.
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Daily Life In Hong Village Bringing China’s Dying Villages Back to Life
Some of China's most beautiful hamlets are threatened with extinction, but a fledgling tourist industry -- and a facelift -- may save the day.
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Screen Shot 2015-02-26 at 12.09.07 PM (2) Watch China’s Silent Assassin in Action
Air pollution still kills thousands of urban-dwelling Chinese each year. Will it take a generation to change?
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Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China’s Ban on Islamic Veils Is Destined to Fail
A symbol of Uighur identity is likely to become a touchstone of resistance to the Party-state.
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A man surfs the internet in Beijing on J China’s Great Firewall Is Rising
Technology and political will are converging to create a seamless nationwide Intranet -- amid growing netizen anger.
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sundown-wasteland Finding the Future in China’s ‘Wasteland’
The country's mad dash to urbanize is transforming even desolate, icy villages.
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Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Why Did the West March for Paris but Not for Kunming?
Expert answers range from the state of Chinese civil society to Western discrimination.
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HONG KONG-CHINA-DEMOCRACY-PROTEST Hong Kong’s ‘Common Aspiration’ Is Anything But
The city's report in the wake of pro-democracy protests is a mere sop to Beijing, experts say.
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Bishan Watch: China’s Emerging Back-to-the-Land Movement
With 300 villages disappearing every day, some urbanites are rethinking the country's development path.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon-Pool/Getty Images What Must China and Japan Do to Get Along in 2015?
It will take more than just an awkward handshake.
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STR/AFP/Getty Images China Central Television, Reviled at Home
The state outlet has fallen so far from its perch that editors are embarrassed to wear the CCTV logo in public.