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Byline: Melinda Liu China's fabled Mogao Grottoes turn to digital tourism. Among China's greatest art treasures are the Buddhist caves near Dunhuang, a Gobi Desert oasis on the fabled Silk [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A glamorous spouse shrinks from the limelight. For proof of how weird political culture can be in China when compared with the West, consider this: in the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A love affair culminates in the Galaxy SOHO. with the benefit of hindsight, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid's story about her first visit to China sounds like a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Political uncertainty roils the Chinese military. 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,' Mao Zedong once famously said. Though China's post-Mao leaders have struggled [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Mo Yan and the magical realism of Weibo. As China prepares for its once-in-a-decade political transition, propaganda just isn't what it used to be. In the bad [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Can Beijing's incoming leaders resolve Tibet's crisis and stop the spate of fiery suicides? Students of Buddhist history and literature know well the ancient fables about Buddha's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Can a new president in China bring much-needed reforms? Within weeks Hu Jintao is expected to kick off a succession process that will end his tenure as [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China remains divided over reviving its ancient sage. In Tiananmen Square last year, when the stolid National Museum of China reopened its doors following a costly renovation, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A bribery probe casts a spotlight on an ancient Chinese term. A strange mix of glitz and sleaze, Macau is the only city in China where gambling [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu In China, crooked governance takes its toll. Nearly a decade ago, Liu Zhijun became China's railway minister with dreams of leapfrogging ahead of the world by building [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China sends a woman to the final frontier. Chinese Air Force Maj. Liu Yang, 33, made history June 16, when she became her country's first female astronaut [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Hong Kong's new headman. Is he or isn't he? Leung Chun-ying--the new chief executive-elect of Hong Kong--wooed crowds on the campaign trail with his charisma, his champion-of-the-poor [...]

Byline: Melinda LiuChina's communist party is about to undergo its biggest shakeup ever. Meet Xi Jinping, the go-getter who will lead Beijing's new political generation.When U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China's 'red restaurants' turn the Cultural Revolution into dinner theater. It's a typical Saturday night at the Red Scene restaurant, which is packed with well-to-do Chinese diners. [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The City of Dali is a traveler's Dream: a taste of old China in an idyllic setting. But is it destined to be ruined by tourism? For [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu And Isaac Stone Fish Artist Ai WeiWei is freed. But China continues its harshest crackdown on political dissidents in decades. It was his most closely watched performance, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Lisa Movius in Shanghai The Chinese repressed personal style during the Mao Years. Now they're ready to express themselves with elan. When Angelica Cheung was growing [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Jin Xing was once a man and a soldier. Then he had a sex-change operation, and became a mother and one of China's premier dancers. Jin Xing, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu It's probably best not to even try making sense of Beijing's pronouncements on the 14th Dalai Lama and other Tibetan spiritual leaders: you'll only make your head [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Parallels between Tahrir Square in 2011 and Tiananmen Square in 1989 haven't been lost on China's media censors. Last week two of nation's biggest Internet portals, Sina.com [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu With China in the spotlight last week during President Hu Jintao's U.S. visit, Beijing's spinmeisters launched a campaign to present its friendliest face to America. Through mid-February, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Chinese officials used to say their alliance with North Korea was 'as close as lips and teeth.' Now, as Pyongyang continues to bite the hand that feeds [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Beijing's announcement that it will shutter more than 2,000 polluting steel mills, cement plants, tanneries, and other industrial energy hogs by the end of September may seem [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu New turf battles have erupted in the rivalry between Hong Kong and Shanghai over which metropolis will be the Wall Street of China. The conventional wisdom has [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu and Isaac Stone Fish The success of cross-dressing comedian Little Shenyang shows that sexual humor is coming out of the closet. Is China ready for raunch? Comedy [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Chinese travelers are embracing the sites in their own country-- especially those offering a foreign or global perspective. Two of China's most scenic destinations are locked in [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The island welcomes tourists from the mainland, and their money. Chinese traveling abroad began as a trickle in the '90s, but now they're flooding Asian destinations like [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Farms matter more than skyscrapers. Leaning Bridge Village is less than 150km from Beijing, but might as well be light-years removed from the capital's glittering towers. Nestled [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu When china's film board announced it would pull the wildly popular Hollywood film Avatar and replace it with a domestic biopic about Confucius--the ancient philosopher whose ethos [...]

Byline: Sharon Begley; With Daniel Stone in Washington, Melinda Liu in Beijing, and Jason Overdorf in Delhi The 192 countries flocking to Copenhagen next month wonCOt reach consensus on climate [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Washington wants Beijing's help in Afghanistan. Last week, the U.S. got China to agree to cooperate on ensuring that neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan is used as a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China has launched a concerted effort to bring home top talent from the United States. For nearly 15 years, china has been trying to engineer a 'brain [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China has a near stranglehold on the so-called rare earths, metals like yttrium and lanthanum that are essential for everything from hybrid cars to iPods to precision-guided [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Marije Vlaskamp in Beijing and Nick Mackie in Chongqing As China prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of communist rule this week, the one-party system looks [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China's leadership could be called the gang of engineers--eight of the nine members of the Communist Party's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee studied engineering, including President Hu Jintao [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The latest victims of the global financial crisis are casualties of the violent unrest sweeping China's minority enclaves--most recently in Xinjiang, where Muslim Uighurs constitute the largest [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu China is now the world's largest market for cars; Chinese leaders aim to own the biggest piece of it. American tastes dominated the world's automotive market for [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The mood in china appears to be reaching a tipping point, as its normally bland leaders abandon cautious diplo-speak under the pressures of the global financial crisis. [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Why the architectural icons Beijing built for the Olympic Games stand empty. China is a command economy run by engineers, a fact that served the nation well [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Craig Simons in Dongguan As exports plummet and coastal factories close, Beijing looks inland for a new economic model. Even if you follow news about China, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Is Beijing, which is famously allergic to intervention, about to get involved in Afghanistan? It sounds crazy, yet there are intriguing signs. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Before it passes, the global economic crisis may topple its share of leaders. Will China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao become a casualty? That's the speculation, thanks to [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu It wasn't all for show. China opts to keep in place some of its Olympics Games pollution control. One of the big questions hanging over this summer's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The Nobel Foundation has been known to pick dark-horse candidates to drive home an ideological point (see Al Gore). How intriguing, then, that the Oslo-based International Peace [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu By now, it's clear that both Chinese and visitors alike reveled in the 2008 Games, even many skeptics. The merry national atmosphere is quite different from the [...]

Byline: Duncan Hewitt; With Melinda Liu in Beijing and Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi Thanks to newfound wealth, liberal arts courses are starting to bloom in the developing world. China's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield Beijing's brass lags behind leaders of nations with similar incomes. China ranks 113th among all countries, with poor scores in air pollution and other [...]

Byline: Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu As China rebuilds from the great quake, a changed country is emerging with some surprising winners and losers. The Chinese phrase for 'crisis' combines [...]

Byline: MELINDA LIU WITH 18,000 STILL MISSING after China's quake, Beijing is organizing a massive campaign to log corpses and establish a DNA database that will help survivors learn the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The last time China suffered a disaster on the magnitude of the recent Sichuan earthquake, its Maoist leaders spurned psychology as a 'bourgeois' discipline. Survivors of the [...]