Kate Whitehead

Chinese novelist Chan Koonchung says he writes for “his Beijing friends” though they can’t buy his books. Here, he discusses censorship, Tibet and his new work.

Her beloved M at the Fringe closed in 2009, but the restaurateur behind successful Shanghai and Beijing venues says she has been frustrated by bureaucracy as she tries to return to where it all began

The tour bus bounces along one of North Korea’s potholed roads, pop music blasting out over the speakers. It’s a catchy tune and even though none of the tourists can understand the lyrics, a few are tapping their feet to the beat.

It was the bloodiest violence the city had seen: the riots would leave 51 people dead and hundreds more injured. We talk to some of the people involved to make sense of events that forever changed Hong Kong

With its restored Ming and Qing dynasty villas, and peaceful contemplation gardens, luxurious Amanyangyun delivers ancient culture as well as 21st-century pampering

Raymond Yang co-founded NGO Just Feel to train schools and families in compassionate communication. He recounts how his violent upbringing inspired him My father moved to Hong Kong from Fujian [in southeast China] in 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when he was 18. He worked super hard, as a street cleaner, a…