Precarious labor conditions and restrictive government policies set domestic workers up to fail, advocates say.

I wrote about how my wedding dress anxieties became less about the look itself, and more about what it had come to represent—my identity in a mixed-race marriage.

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice.

Jessie Lau ponders Emily Feng’s book “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.”

An acclaimed Chinese app game was designed to encourage green behaviour. But some users are gaming the system—by paying others to help them rack up points and even buying devices that rock their phones to artificially boost their step count

A recently arrived voting bloc could decide seats in London

Silencing of a film-maker documenting the widespread 2022 demonstrations against Covid controls is part of rising suppression of press freedom

Chinese students tell the Guardian they are scared to return home and worry for their families after being followed and harassed

China ‘threatens relatives in Tibet’ to exert control over activists in exile, with greater transnational repression at Tibetan new year

Hundreds of women sentenced for practices such as studying the Qur’an, dating back as far back as 60s and 70s, analysis of Chinese police files shows

Trans and queer people and their supporters suffer ‘systemic persecution’ as the party pushes increasingly conservative values

Meet “Looty,” a dog stolen by the British in the looting of China’s Old Summer Palace and gifted to the queen. Her journey sparked a craze–and left behind a legacy mired in British imperialism and racism

Ikram Nurmehmet, a director known for featuring Uyghur protagonists, faced trial in Xinjiang and alleges authorities tortured him in detention

Speaking over an encrypted messaging app, “Zhao” reflected on the demonstrations and the young people powering them