Chinese artists slay Communism's sacred cows
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Putting breasts and a gormless expression of child-like delight on the late Mao Zedong in the name of art may seem nothing short of blasphemous for China's culture guardians.
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Chinese director Wang Quan'an says his film about Mongolian herders is for posterity, as economic pressures force them from the windswept steppes to crowded cities and extinguish their way of life.
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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Chinese are uploading more Internet videos of sex, scandal and protest. It's big business  -  and a headache for Beijing
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For the second time in days, Chinese authorities have ordered a mass slaughter of dogs to curb a rabies outbreak &#151; drawing criticism from animal lovers but also support from many who say it's the only way to contain a disease that kills more than 2,000 Chinese a year.
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At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.
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Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine's Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China.
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If the only way to gain any real sense of the countryâs thriving contemporary-art industry is to visit China itself, the coming art season does offer some at-home options.
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Mexico's gruesome drug war and its hundreds of executions a year are the inspiration for an art exhibit of red-splattered blankets meant to represent shrouds used by hitmen to dispose of their victims.
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HARBIN, China -- The hands had melted off a delicately entwined couple of ballet dancers crafted by an ice-sculpting team from Vladivostok. Eaves fashioned from packed snow drooped into icicles at the Roast Meat Fire House restaurant. Authorities banned people from approaching the ice-cube tower at...
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The Chinese author of a book about long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger to the ruling Communist Party's censors, daring them on Friday to explain their secretive ways before the law.
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Inspired in part by "American Idol," Chinese talent shows have captivated millions of viewers in the past two years &#151; and unnerved some Chinese officials.
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By Wu Chong  Black-and-white giant pandas, China's national treasures, have long enchanted the world with their lovely image of munching on bamboo.
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The consummate ambition that Chinese artists brought to diminutive scale is a striking feature of the Metropolitan Museumâs small late-summer show.
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The grinning men of "Execution" fetched $6 million at auction late last year, 187 times the price paid seven years ago by a Hong Kong banker for Chinese artist Yue Minjun's oil painting inspired by the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
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NANJIE, China -- The sky is still black when the village loudspeaker blazes the revolutionary song "The East Is Red." A three-story-high statue of Chairman Mao looms over a square flanked by giant portraits of the socialist all-stars: Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
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The Chinese author of a book about  long-dead Peking Opera stars has become the latest challenger  to the ruling Communist Party's censors, daring them on Friday  to explain their secretive ways before the law.