Beijing letter

On hottest day in 60 years, thoughts turn to Dragon Boats and the pursuit of youth

More than 100 artists have contributed small paintings to an exhibition that is touring a country where the poet exerted much influence

Beijing Letter: Foreign visitors complain about being unable to use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which are blocked in China

Beijing Letter: James Zimmerman’s book tells the story of an extraordinary month-long hostage drama which began 100 years ago in a very different China

Beijing Letter: Many of these children are now in their 40s and living abroad but are the only people who can look after their parents

Beijing Letter: A 1919 short story Kong Yiji is the most talked about literary work in China as frustrated graduates identify bitterly with the title character

It’s not easy sustaining a long-term relationship without upsetting ageing, increasingly dependent parents

Beijing Letter: Valery Gergiev, banned in the West, gave four sold-out performances this week

Denis Staunton tells of shifting sands in China’s capital and how the victim and a husband want police to handle a shocking real-life incident at the movies

Data issues addressed by regulators are the same as those that preoccupy legislators in Europe

After last year’s protests and the scrapping of zero-Covid, China’s president is looking to tighten the party’s control over the country’s policy levers

Party leadership is taking special measures to avoid a re-run of last year’s demonstrations