Laura Schmitt

The FIFA world cup once again illustrated how much China loves football. Yet, the national team’s lack of ability is infamous.; are a new school and Xi Jinping about to change the football state of the nation? China loves...

Discussions this month amongst Hong Kong leadership on cutting the number of mainland visitors by 20 percent illustrate the tensions between China’s two systems. The resistance against the mainland presence in the ex-colony has been long-standing, increasing over recent...

The removal of four leading US shows last month from Chinese streaming sites was greeted with confusion and anger; now the latest “Anti-piracy campaign” is revealing a “clean-up” of unprecedented scale. End of April four highly...

Yesterday the world celebrated World Book Day. For China with its complex language system reading and literacy are especially hot topics, even more so considering the country’s turbulent history throughout the 20th century.  Chinese Literacy in...