News

Experts Stress Protection of Beijing: An emperor moved his capital from a remote northeastern area to Beijing 850 years ago, now, 850 years later, people in the capital are facing a dilemma that many other cities face around the globe—the need to safeguard the past while continuing to build the future.

All work and no play in new China: Coming back to Beijing after almost a decade away has been a disorientating experience. The pace of construction has been so frenzied that walking around the city feels like a virtual reality experience - only the street names have stayed the same while everything else has changed.

For Chinese Mothers With a Dream, Hard Knocks: Propelled by his parents' ambitions, Han Weiding, 13, left behind all that he knew in China and decamped this summer with his mother to [Singapore] to go to school. In a cramped apartment, the strapping teenager struggles with English homework. After two months, the television cartoons are still unintelligible, and his ultimate goal of fluent English seems frustratingly far away. His mother, a diminutive, poorly educated woman, remains without a job. [New York Times requires free registration.]

Why We Decided To Adopt From China: Why China? That's the question family, friends, co-workers and Love & Money readers have been asking Amy and me since we announced that we're in the process of adopting a baby girl from China.

Chinese Publisher Censors Clinton Memoir: For weeks, the translation of Hillary Clinton's autobiography has been one of China's hottest books. But some portions of the senator and former first lady's original text have been censored or shortened in the mainland version, and the U.S. publisher is demanding a recall.