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How Beethoven inspired 50 years of cultural exchange between the US and China
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threat
Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent
09, Apr, 2022 @3:00 PM
Fifty years on, ‘Nixon in China’ loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington
The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom
Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent
21, Feb, 2022 @1:55 AM
Chinese Communist party elevates Xi’s status in ‘historical resolution’
Analysts say move is designed to put president on same level as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping
Vincent Ni and agencies
11, Nov, 2021 @2:36 PM
Ai Weiwei: ‘It is so positive to be poor as a child. You understand how vulnerable our humanity can be’
From living in a dugout in Little Siberia to his friendship with Allen Ginsberg in New York, artist and activist Ai Weiwei reveals what drives his restless creativity
David Shariatmadari
30, Oct, 2021 @9:30 AM
The Guardian view on Xi Jinping’s China: rectification, not revolution | Editorial
Editorial: A wide-ranging crackdown and leftist rhetoric have stirred fears of a return to the apogee of Maoism
Editorial
12, Sep, 2021 @4:58 PM
Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru’s Shining Path, dies aged 86
Founder of Maoist insurgents that terrorised Peru in 1980s and 1990s dies in military prison where he was serving life sentence
Dan Collyns Lima
11, Sep, 2021 @7:02 PM
China’s Communist party has rewritten its own past – but the truth will surface | Rana Mitter
The history of the century-old party is far more interesting than its sanitised propaganda would suggest, says Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War
Rana Mitter
01, Jul, 2021 @7:00 AM
The Guardian view on the Chinese Communist party at 100: what does the next century hold? | Editorial
Editorial: Few would have predicted the CCP’s triumph. Now it guards its power ruthlessly
Editorial
29, Jun, 2021 @5:57 PM
The Chinese Communist party: 100 years that shook the world
As China marks the centenary of its ruling party, we examine key episodes in its tempestuous history, including the Long March, Mao’s purges and Xi Jinping’s rise to the top of an emerging superpower
Richard McGregor
27, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM
Nexhmije Hoxha obituary
Wife of the Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha who was dubbed the Lady Macbeth of Albania
Ian Thomson
02, Mar, 2020 @5:05 PM
Nixon in China review – slick update for tale of Tricky Dicky's schmoozing
Scottish Opera brings an inventive postmodern eye to its revival of John Adams’s retelling of Nixon’s 1972 state visit
Rowena Smith
19, Feb, 2020 @2:39 PM
Davos 2020 should be all about climate crisis but Trump won't admit it | Larry Elliott
Subject was not an issue at forum’s first meeting in 1971 but should now be at forefront for US president
Larry Elliott
19, Jan, 2020 @12:49 PM
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