Zhang Yingyue

For Falun Gong practitioners, July 20 marks a solemn anniversary: the date in 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party launched its full-scale campaign of suppression, turning a peaceful spiritual practice into a flashpoint of global human rights contention. Today, it’s adherents will turn out world-…

In recent years, Myanmar’s borderlands have become synonymous with brutal modern slavery. The victims from all over the world, Chinese, Asians, Africans and Westerners duped by online scams and then forced to perpetrate the scams themselves, often under the most grotesque conditions imaginable.…

To understand Xi Jinping's current predicament, one must first appreciate the extent of his consolidation of power. Since taking the helm in 2012, Xi has waged a relentless campaign to centralise authority. He has abolished term limits, purged rivals under the guise of anti-corruption drives, and…

Islam has a long and complex presence in China and offers a fascinating case study in how different Muslim communities integrate, or clash, with a dominant national culture. While China’s Hui Muslims live peacefully alongside the Han majority, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang have repeatedly come into…

Three different scenes. Three paths through life. Yet in China these are not rival faiths but parts of a shared spiritual language—Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, collectively known as San Jiao (The Three Teachings).

Christianity is now the fastest-growing religions in China. Scholars, theologians, and the political analysts of the CCP are grappling with the question why.

Reading Maryam Gholan’s recent article on the assimilation of Muslims in Britain, my mind turned to a story of assimilation in China, that of China’s centuries old Jewish population who, when I was young, we thought were a type of Muslim because they didn’t eat the port so beloved of Han Chinese.

In China, food is not just about sustenance; it's about connection, with others, with health, and with ‘the spirit’.

Many in China believe that China's population has fallen by around five hundred million in the last few years.

Looking for a bright, educated, financially independent wife? Go to a park in China....

Meet the 150 million strong army of China's Dancing Aunties.

Zhang YingYue on the culture behind Chinese New Year - with predictions.