Entire armies fell apart while cities starved behind the front lines. In 1948, Mao Zedong rejected compromise and pushed for total victory as Communist forces launched massive offensives across ...

China's infamous one-child policy, which officially ended in 2015, is widely considered to be one of the main contributors to the declining population and low fertility.

China’s people, as is sometimes said, are “trying to breathe,” hoping to find some freedom from central control. Four female college students in the central city of Zhengzhou tried to breathe in June ...

Amid the political and economic changes of the early 2000s, it seemed unthinkable that China would revert back to Mao-era repression. But’s that’s exactly what happened. Many observers, especially in ...

Its population decline presents a challenge to the overoptimistic prognostications prevalent in the press and among ...

A few recent developments suggest ideological change is coming to the Chinese Communist Party, however incrementally. Speaking at a Politburo Standing ...