China

Religion and the Communist Party

Render unto Caesar

The party’s conservative wing finds religion—and dislikes it

Reporting Chinese politics

Hidden news

The rumour mill goes into overdrive

Taxing China

Pay and play

One year on, China’s most-hyped tax is still mostly hype

Tibetans and the Chinese state

No power to pacify

More discontent on the plateau, despite strong economic growth

Hong Kong and the mainland

Dogs and locusts

Old divisions find a new expression

Attitudes towards capital punishment

Who goes to the gallows?

Concern over a high-profile death penalty

Yunnan’s tobacco boom

Poisonous gift

In China’s south-west, a smoker’s paradise

The long arm of the state

Where’s the party?

How the Communist Party is trying to expand its influence in the private sector

China’s new tribes

Ant tribes and mortgage slaves

The subdivisions of urban China

Banyan

Having it both ways

Iran and the gap between theory and practice in Chinese foreign policy

Yunnan's caffeine rush

For all the coffee in China

Leaves versus beans

From the archive

Shock troops

Our first coverage of China’s Cultural Revolution