One of China's most prominent human rights activists, Hu Jia, has won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

I’ve noticed at least three different waves of local propaganda since we’ve been here.

It's the time of year when many Chinese burn paper clothes and money in the road for their dead relatives to use in the underworld. This post and its photos help foreigners understand the what, why, and how of this practice.

Months later, the problem of Internet addiction in China became a personal problem for me when my apartment was robbed. The police determined that the camera I lost (with 500 photos from a recent trip to Chengdu), as well as a computer and a Gerber knife had probably been pawned by local schoolboys to fund their Internet game addictions.