- Smelly, slow, unforgettable: Bidding goodbye to China’s green skinned trains.
- The PLA adds its own stamp to the famous Hong Kong light show by projecting the Chinese characters of the PLA onto its garrison.
- A study commissioned by the Communist Party Organisation Department finds top leaders are monopolising promotions, nepotism is rampant and appointments are bought and sold.
- Brookings experts on the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, to be held in Beijing on 9-10 July.
- Inside China's blackest of black boxes, the shuanggui interrogation system.
- Tania Branigan on the last surviving zishunü, or self-combing women, who were part of a cultural practice that allowed females to leave the family home without marrying but required them to stay unmarried for their entire lives.
- China visit to Seoul a snub to North Korea.
- Changes are afoot in China-Pakistan border town Tashkurgan in part due to a program that pairs underdeveloped Xinjiang counties with affluent cities and provinces in China's east.
- Kerry Brown on China's princelings and the Party.
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Published 8 Jul 2014
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