Joseph Kahn

Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.

Representative government faces its most serious threats in decades.

Two scholars argue that the humiliation of defeat by foreigners has been a nationalist rallying cry in modern China.

An argument that China will displace the United States as a superpower and upend our notions of modernity.

Why did the Chinese authorities react so strongly against an exercise society?

In this memoir, Lijia Zhang describes coming of age in 1980s China.

The National Center for the Performing Arts, a $400 million complex, has attracted at least as much attention for its cost overruns, safety concerns and provocative aesthetics.

The changes in the Communist Party’s leadership lineup modestly enhance the authority President Hu Jintao.

Lake Tai, the center of China’s ancient “land of fish and rice,” succumbed this year to floods of man-made waste. By then, the activist who had been trying to save the lake was in jail.

The execution was meant to show that Beijing is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.

The execution was meant to show that Beijing is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.

Margaret MacMillan, who is noted for writing big-picture historical narratives, examines the rapprochement between the United States and China in her new book.

A desert pincer is squeezing Minqin, a struggling oasis town, and China’s long campaign to cultivate its vast arid northwest is in retreat.

How did a renegade nation that can barely manufacture bicycles become a nuclear power?