Kate Whitehead

As the country is wracked by power shortages, some of the fences are live and some aren’t. Good luck figuring out which is which

Being mixed up with China sceptic is ‘the bane of my life’, says Gordon H. Chang, recently in Hong Kong, who sees America as both fearful of and attracted to China but unlikely to be eclipsed by the rising power any time soon

Jung Chang’s biography casts a forgiving light on the life and reign of the woman who dominated China’s history during a period of upheaval

What is it? Not the one and only One&Only, funnily enough, although it is the original, from which a chain of luxury resorts has been built that stretches from North America to Australia (Sanya will soon see China’s first). It’s not often that a mountain view beats a sea view, but Cape Town, in South…

Thoughts of North Korea and its citizens’ wardrobes are likely to conjure up images of drab dresses or military uniforms.

Born in Shanghai in 1948, the artist spent the Cultural Revolution drawing propaganda posters and admiring Buddhist art in temples and the Dunhuang caves, then married into a family entitled to live in the United States, where he could earn a living painting, he tells Kate Whitehead