In his baseball cap and baggy yellow t-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie - better known by his stage name "Pissy" - is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party. More »
China’s President Xi Jinping speaks during the ceremony to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the China’s People’s Liberation Army at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China August 1, 2017. China loves peace but will never compromise on defend... More »
FILE PHOTO – An employee poses with artist Andy Warhol’s artwork ”Mao” at Sotheby’s auction house in London January 29, 2014. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor An Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong has sold for $12.6 million at a Hong Kong ... More »
People take pictures on Tiananmen Square as the portrait of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong is seen in the background in Beijing, China, on the 40th anniversary of his death September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter A Chinese professor has been sacked after he ... More »
Six of the nine armoured troop carriers belonging to Singapore, from a shipment detained at a container terminal, are seen in Hong Kong, China November 24, 2016. Picture taken through a glass window. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo China said on Monday it had lod... More »
Author Madeleine Thien poses for photographs during a photo-call in London for the six Man Booker shortlisted fiction authors, on the eve of the prize giving in London, Britain October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls – RTX2Q9MY Man Booker Prize finalist Madel... More »
LONDON The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei will have what is being billed as the biggest retrospective of his work ever staged in Britain at an exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Art in September, the academy said on Monday. The show is being mounte... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s main state broadcaster, CCTV, will investigate one of its anchors after a video of him insulting the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, went viral on social media sites. Mao, who died in 1976, remains a divisive figure. His image ... More »
