Dafen once produced 60 per cent of the world’s new oil paintings — now this village of copyists is under threat

The material is an inescapable part of the city’s landscape and heritage — but its future is precarious

Hong Kong activists in Britain fear reprisals from Beijing and call for more protection.

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels.

Some scholars argue the real problem lies with the UK’s lack of a coherent engagement strategy with China.

Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama.

Jessie Lau reviews Barbara Demick’s “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove.”

A decade ago, Hong Kong filmmakers asked what their city would look like under Chinese control in 2025. Now, their banned dystopian hit is being brought to Britain on its ten year anniversary, by diaspora artists fighting against censorship.

Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say.

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