China: Politics and Culture

Posts about politics, in China and beyond.

That Time I was in an Immigration Raid in China

By Kenny Nowhere / January 15, 2026

My wife and I spent about three and a half years living in working in China. During that time, we

By canyon / November 25, 2021

China is a country of rule breakers. It’s a nation of criminals, scofflaws, delinquents, lawbreakers, and ne’er do wells who

By canyon / June 15, 2021

The Dragon Boat Festival is a national holiday in China that takes place on the fifth day of the fifth

By canyon / April 4, 2021

The Qingming festival is also known in English as Tomb Sweeping Day. It happens every year on the 15th day

By canyon / March 10, 2021

Chinese movies have existed pretty much since the beginning of cinema, starting with rickety black and white footage of downtown

By canyon / February 8, 2021

The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is undoubtedly the biggest of all the big holidays in China. It’s like

By canyon / June 30, 2020

Is Winnie the Pooh illegal in China? Well, that depends on what you mean by “illegal.” It also depends on

By canyon / June 2, 2020

I’ve been spending the last week sitting in my apartment in Shanghai watching yet another explosion of anger against racism