Tea Leaf Nation

It would reduce the ranks of 'tongqi,' straight women in sham marriages with gay men.

A new wave of startups exploits a legal gray zone between social networking and facilitating prostitution.

It's not about separating from mainland China. It's about nation-building.

Those named as offshore mavens included a Stanford freshman and a descendant of Mao Zedong.

In Greater China’s media wars, a Hong Kong start-up is trying to make peace.

Several Beijing leaders were implicated in the big leak. Reading social media, you’d never know it.

With China’s president in town to talk nuclear security, students handed out Beijing-backed China Daily.

I went to China to find the birth mother who left me on a street corner. Instead, I became the focus of a nation’s buried pain.

我返华寻亲却意外成为全国隐痛的焦点。

When a computer beat a Go grandmaster, some in China saw the match as a battle between Western technology and Eastern culture.

This Chinese company makes the world’s classiest toilets, and it’s got the brand name to prove it.

With its new five-year plan, Beijing aims to rebalance its troubled economy and forge a path to lasting national wealth.