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A young man sits in a court room with his head against the wall. There is a security office just visible in the background.

13 Oct 2022 3 minute read

Commemorating Hong Kong’s lost youth

Husna Ara finds Blue Island a confused documentary, bogged down by form and lacking in political...

22 Jul 2021 5 minute read

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The interview: Sayragul Sauytbay

Sayragul Sauytbay on being forced to teach propaganda in a concentration camp for Uyghur...

The abandoned remains of a forklift overgrown with trees, next to a destroyed beachfront house in Futaba, Fukushima. Credit: C.E.J. Simons.Credit: C.E.J. Simons.

10 Mar 2021 5 minute read

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Fukushima communities are building a sustainable future

Ten years on from the devastating nuclear disaster, citizens are working together to show that nuclear power and fossil...

21 Dec 2020 3 minute read

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Hall of infamy: Carrie Lam

Big Momma Carrie Lam is on a mission in Hong Kong.

27 Nov 2020 4 minute read

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Uyghur poet Abduweli Ayup: ‘I had no choice but to flee’

Uyghur poet and teacher Abduweli Ayup talks to Jan-Peter Westad about language, cultural...

A still from the music video 'Room Service', via the record label 88rising, by hip hop sensation Higher Brothers.

4 Dec 2019 5 minute read

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(Don’t) fight the power

Amy Hawkins surveys the cultural landscape in the world’s second-largest economy, China.

A guard at the Mombasa terminus of the Chinese-financed SGR railway. Saturday is one of the busiest times on the line, as Kenyans travel from Nairobi to the coast to visit family.

25 Nov 2019 6 minute read

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The Beijing connection

Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between China and the African...

Uyghur men in Xinjiang pray during the Corban festival (Eid) in 2016. Public displays of religiosity are now considered signs of extremism. Credit: Kevin Frayers/Getty

18 Nov 2019 11 minute read

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Xinjiang: living in a ghost world

Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s...

11 Nov 2019 6 minute read

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How green is China?

Ma Tianjie examines the limits of China’s ‘ecological nationalism’.

29 Oct 2019 14 minute read

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China in charge

Yohann Koshy on the ironies and contradictions of what one day might be called the Chinese century.

24 Oct 2019 5 minute read

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Don’t call the Essex 39 a ‘tragedy’

The British state is complicit in their deaths, argues Jun Pang.

24 Sep 2019 4 minute read

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Who is militarizing the South China Sea?

Mark J Valencia makes sense of the cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours.

10 Sep 2019 5 minute read

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It’s lonely on the Left in Hong Kong

Bennett Murray speaks to Avery Ng, the leader of Hong Kong’s most leftwing party within...

11 Jul 2019 4 minute read

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Hong Kong’s malaise runs deeper than an extradition bill

Mass protest and civil unrest have taken Hong Kong by storm. Evan Fowler gets to the root of the crisis

11 Mar 2019 4 minute read

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‘Little Africa’ in China

Guangzhou is home to Asia’s largest African migrant population, who come to China chasing business opportunities, reputable...

30 Jan 2019 6 minute read

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Japan’s firewall against populism

Despite populism being rife everywhere else, Japan has refused to succumb. Are there lessons to be learned? asks ...

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