His work was once the most expensive from a modern Chinese artist. Zeng Fanzhi gives CNN a glimpse of his studio and method.
Jing Ulrich of J.P. Morgan discusses the Chinese premier's criticism over state-controlled banks' "easy" profits.
Expensive jewelry, art objects, animal skins, fancy pens and huge carpets that once belonged to Romania's former dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, were among items being auctioned Thursday in Bucharest.
China's former President Jiang Zemin appeared in Beijing on Sunday, the first time he's been seen publicly since rumors surfaced months ago that he had died.
One of my first jobs in China was teaching English through songs on CCTV, China's national television station.
Librarians, information specialists, knowledge managers or whatever title a librarian might have -- their skills are in high demand. And, though you might not know it, they are everywhere.
Henry Luce, the venerable founder of Fortune magazine, once wrote that "Communism is the most monstrous cancer which ever attacked humanity." He was talking about the "loss" of China to Mao Zedong in 1949 and its failure to become a democratic state. It was the greatest disappointment of his life.
The boy from Manhattan sits under a picture of Chairman Mao. Sixteen-year-old Spencer Langerman has left his comfortable life in the Big Apple to live with a Beijing family and attend high school for one year.
Living Golf meets Wen Chong Llang, the first ever Chinese player to break into the top one hundred.
Most top golfers were inspired to pick up clubs by the leading names of the generation before them. But China's current No. 1 player has a very different story.
What does it take to count more than one billion people in China? Six-and-a-half million census-takers going door to door, visiting more than 400 million households nationwide for several days.
"Why do you assume that we want Western democracy?" The question was put by an English-speaking Chinese woman, a graduate of an American university, over an elegant dinner served in a private dining room at an expensive restaurant in the most fashionable neighborhood of Beijing.
Getting into North Korea was one of the weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists to come and cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Just before our departure, they suddenly said, "No, nobody can come." Then they said, "OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists." But they already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don't like jail. And we're willing to bet we'd hate jail in North Korea.
The CEO of Rio Tinto speaks to CNN's Charles Hodson about the charges against the mining giant's employees in China.
White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
WH Communications Director Anita Dunn tells CNN's Howard Kurtz that Fox News Network is basically an arm of the GOP.
Young, well-educated Chinese are increasingly joining the Communist Party. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
Soon after I first came to visit China in the autumn of 1971, I saw a contingent of militia soldiers doing marching drills in Tiananmen Square. I was told they were rehearsing for the annual National Day parade on October 1, which people eagerly awaited.
CNN's Emily Chang talks to visitors about how they view Chairman Mao 60 years after he founded their country.
CNN's John Vause reports on China's plans for affordable health care for hundreds of millions of poor and uninsured.
One of the most telling things about China's health care is a quote I once read from a construction worker who earns about $150 a month: "If you get cancer in China, don't bother going to the hospital. They might not cure you, but you will go broke."
They're known as the "post 1980s" kids or the "Tiananmen-plus-20" generation: 200 million-strong, Web-savvy, pop-culture-conscious and decidedly apolitical.
CNN's Emily Chang reports China's youth may not know much about the Tiananmen crackdown but say they care.
Unregistered churches are attracting millions of worshippers in China, exposing an enduring rift between the government and the Vatican.
At least 16 police officers, including five women, died in a shootout that erupted after suspected Maoists ambushed them Thursday in central India, a state official said.
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising against Communist China's repression in Tibet.
Kenny Kan started customizing bikes more than 30 years ago, when he inherited his brother's old two-wheeler.
Errol Barnett looks at iReporter Ray White's submissions revealing two unique perspectives of China.
The Beijing Olympics will be the most expensive in history, as CNN's Emily Chang reports.
An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement
Only the Olympics could bump Mao Zedong, the founding leader of communist China, off a Chinese banknote
Mao Zedong once said, "He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man."
Taiwan closed the mausoleum of Chiang Kai-shek as part of the ruling party's campaign to diminish his legacy.
I'm on the highest point of Pyongyang, and I've just done something shamefully cynical.
Chinese President Hu Jintao moved shrewdly to strengthen his position at the Party Congress. But that won't necessarily make implementing his policies any easier
Hu's next?
updated: Fri Oct 19 2007 02:31:00
Two young leaders are expected to be promoted as potential successors to party chief Hu Jintao. Jaime FlorCruz reports.
Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for a fashion faux pas of the political sort.
Former Chinese leader Mao Zedong dreamed of a "great wall of stone" taming the mighty Yangtze River.
I hope the great restaurants of Paris held a moment of silence early this week upon hearing of the death of the distinguished French philosopher and journalist, Jean-Francois Revel. They should have. He was certainly the greatest gastronome I have known. He was also that rare French intellectual who admires America, and something more: He did not flinch from the evidence in any intellectual debate, whether it be a debate over communism, terrorism or the tomato.
About 50 passengers riding on a train attacked by Maoist rebels Monday evening in a remote section of India were found safe early Tuesday, local police said.
Few doubt that the 2008 Summer Games to be held in Beijing will be the most spectacular and extravagant sporting event in the Olympic movement's history.
Cecilia Yeung bounded into the meeting room of the office in downtown Hong Kong, clapping to the beat of Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down, I get up again...."
Nepal's army claims Maoist rebels have abducted about 90 high school students from their classrooms last week.
A fierce battle between government forces and Maoist rebels in eastern Nepal has left at least 59 people dead.
Angela Yang is part of a small new revolution in China -- the stay-at-home mother.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has lifted a state of emergency that he imposed on February 1 after seizing control of the government
Taiwan's main opposition leader has called for the "building of a bridge" between the self-governed island and Beijing during a controversial visit to mainland China.
Mourning pilgrims have packed into churches in Rome to remember Pope John Paul II in services presided over by cardinals, who praised the late pontiff for touching hearts around the world.
Roman Catholic cardinals preparing to elect a new pope have unanimously decided not to talk with the media, a Vatican spokesman told reporters Saturday.
Nepal remains gripped by political tension, with rebels helping to break more than a hundred prisoners out of jail, and police quashing a protest in the capital Kathmandu.
Leaders from around the world have condemned the decision by Nepal's King Gyanendra to dismiss the government and declare a state of emergency.
King Gyanendra says he has dissolved the government of Nepal and has declared a state of emergency as he takes control of the Himalayan kingdom.
You can buy anything in modern Shanghai. Well, almost anything.
The CIA is offering a rare glimpse into its successes and failures at trying to understand China during its first communist decades in a huge cache of newly declassified documents released this week in Washington.
Maoists rebels have lifted a blockade that cut Nepal's capital Kathmandu off from the rest of the country for a week.
Two bombs have exploded in Nepal's capital Kathmandu as an unprecedented rebel blockade of the city enters its third day.
Nepal's capital Kathmandu has only a few days worth of fresh produce and cooking fuel, officials say, as a rebel blockade enters its third day.
Kathmandu has been cut off from the rest of the country for the second day of an indefinite blockade of the Nepalese capital by Maoists rebels.
What is it about Tiananmen Square?
Balance, not rapid growth, is the central theme of this year's session of China's National People's Congress.
A revolution, as Mao Zedong aptly put it, is not a dinner party. Neither is global capitalism. So as the world's most populous nation lurches into the most painful phase of its transition to a mark...
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