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The author of the 1991 bestseller ‘Wild Swans’ and a recent follow-up memoir discusses growing up under Mao, Chinese politics today, and whether Trump is pushing the West into Beijing’s arms
Sale of nuclear secrets? Invasion of Taiwan? What the tea leaves reveal about the purge in China’s military leadership
Given the official silence regarding the dismissal of the highest-ranking general, analysts and sinologists are searching for clues and signs to interpret the ‘great political storm’
From missile command to the military hierarchy, Xi Jinping puts his own army to the test
Since 2023, two defense ministers have been dismissed and 14 generals appointed by the Chinese president have been removed or have disappeared
Gao Zhen, the Chinese artist who has been detained for more than 400 days after criticizing Mao
As he awaits his trial for ‘insulting’ the ‘honor of heroes and martyrs’ with his works, his wife declares: ‘Art is not a crime’
China displays its military might at parade attended by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un
‘Today, humanity once again faces the choice between peace and war,’ Xi Jinping warned during an event commemorating Japan’s surrender in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the end of World War II
An artist learned to draw comics to understand her family’s trauma. She has now made Pulitzer Prize history
With her graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts,’ Tessa Hulls is only the second author to win the prestigious award for a comic, 33 years after ‘Maus.’ ‘I won’t write any more books,’ she warns
Tibet, the territory where the Chinese Communist Party is omnipresent
EL PAÍS travels to the autonomous region of China, where governments and NGOs denounce the violation of rights and Beijing claims it has implemented a successful development model
Yan Lianke, writer: ‘Revolutions are terrible. Human progress cannot depend on destruction’
He began writing propaganda for the Chinese Army and, after reading the classics, became a fearless author. Perhaps that’s why he’s widely read outside his country, but hardly in China. A candidate for the Nobel Prize, his works have been translated into 20 languages
Watch melted during atomic blast over Hiroshima sells for more than $31,000
The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. — during the closing days of World War ll
The modern dictator’s handbook
A book by Frank Dikötter analyzes the common traits of 20th century despots
Artists and writers sum up communism in three words: censorship, repression, death
The journalist and editor Manuel Florentín has published a chronicle of the persecution that totalitarian regimes have perpetrated against intellectuals and creators, from Lenin’s Soviet Union to Ortega’s Nicaragua
To visit authentic dictatorships, travel back in time
To say that we live under tyranny means to ignore the cold, poverty, and terror in which millions of people lived for hundreds of years, and that many millions still suffer
Xi Jinping becomes the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao
The secretary general, who was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, may lead China until 2032
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