Shanghai's Middle Class Launches Quiet, Meticulous Revolt
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SHANGHAI -- Bundled against the cold, the businessman made his way down the steps. Coming toward him in blue mittens was a middle-aged woman.
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As chain stores move to capitalize on India's emerging middle class, opposition is growing from its legions of small shopkeepers and state governments
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The public shaming of a group of prostitutes and pimps, recalling the Cultural Revolution, has prompted an angry backlash in China.
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SHANGHAI -- From his posh office in a coastal city in eastern China, millionaire Zhou Jiaru oversees more than 100 workers at an auto parts refurbishing factory he purchased in a struggling manufacturing town on the other side of the world.
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The normally muted elegance of one of Paris's chic hotels, the Concorde Lafayette, has been shattered by noisy protests from workers complaining about management practices imposed by the property's new US owners.
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Children turned on parents, students denounced their teachers and Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed "To rebel is justified" -- the Cultural Revolution was a defining, if terrifying, experience for many Chinese.
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SHANGHAI, June 8 -- Under normal circumstances, the Chinese citizenry isn't known for public dissent. But this week, as investors saw their savings shrink in a few days in the stock market, many openly blamed the government.
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Beijing's effort to silence discussion about Zhao Ziyang has landed in the heart of Hong Kong.
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Hundreds of Chinese peasants have protested over family-planning rules in an area hit by similar demonstrations earlier this month, state media said on Thursday, with some setting fire to government vehicles.
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SHANGHAI -- It was in this city's historic Xintiandi district of gently frayed shikumen, or alley houses, that Mao Zedong and his comrades founded China's Communist Party in 1921.
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A scandal in Shanghai could help China's President consolidate power
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A local group is sparking a quiet sanitary revolution that the World Bank and UN call a model for other developing countries.
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You can bet they have been salivating, waiting patiently for the delicious, divisive moment: for Cultural Revolution Two or Tiananmen Square Two.
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China's gleaming skyscrapers and economic progress hide the realities of political oppression. Take the case of Chen Guangcheng
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Reports from southern China say a riot broke out after a dispute at a bridge toll-booth in the province of Guangdong.
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BEIJING - Martial law was declared in a town in central China after at least four people died in rioting, residents said on Monday.
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Police by the thousands patrolled this central Chinese town Monday and residents remained indoors after deadly street fights. On Monday, minivans with loudspeakers drove