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Shanghai Immortal. By A. Y. Chao. Oct. 2023. 352p. Hodderscape, $28.99 (9781399717410). Half hulijing, half vampire, and full of sass, Jing readily flaunts the social mores of 1930s Shanghai and [...]

Majority. By Abby Goldsmith. Sept. 2023. 590p. Podium, paper, $18.99 (9781039442726); e-book (9781039442733) An eidetic mind reader who absorbs knowledge through memories, Thomas regularly achieves feats requiring preternatural mental prowess: [...]

The Saint of Bright Doors. By Vajra Chandrasekera. July 2023.368p. Tor.com, $27.99 (9781250847386); e-book (9781250847393). Fetter is enmeshed in a cycle of violence as his mother severs his shadow from [...]

Yin Shuqiang, a corn farmer in hardscrabble Sichuan province, sits on a rough-hewn wooden bench, surrounded by concrete walls. The only splash of color in his house is a crimson [...]

CASE #1 Pemphigus vulgaris A 60-year-old man with a history of Hashimoto thyroiditis and rheumatoid arthritis presents with a 3-month history of painful blisters and erosions, which initially presented in [...]

A healthy 16-year-old girl presents with six tan patches on her trunk and upper arms, freckles in her axillae, and a reddish discoloration under the tip of her thumbnail. The [...]

A 30-year-old healthy Hispanic woman presents with a slowly progressive facial deformity present since early childhood. She denies any new lesions during this time, any history of trauma to the [...]

A healthy 45-year-old woman presents with a several-month history of a small papule at the corner of her right eye. The lesion is asymptomatic and is not enlarging, but she [...]

A 60-year-old man presents with rapidly growing lesions on his face, trunk, axillae, flexural areas, and groin. The lesions appeared 3 months earlier in his perianal area and extended rapidly [...]

A 50-year-old woman presents with a 5-day history of progressive, painful rash on her face, trunk, extremities, nasal tip, and ears, as well as fever and arthralgia. She has a [...]

A 7-month-old male who had been born prematurely presents with a 2-month history of diarrhea, failure to thrive, alopecia, and rash involving the perioral, perianal, and acral areas. He had [...]

We'd mobilize to block the United States, too.'" That binary worldview may partly explain why Xi thinks Biden is surrounding China with groups such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which includes Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. Features JOE BIDEN HAS HAD MORE FACE TIME with Chinese leaders than any other U.S. president. For Biden's first year in office, Xi's aides saw little benefit in having their president talk with his U.S. counterpart in person - especially if there was a risk of Xi losing face in the eyes of his audience back home. [Extracted from the article]

The Iraqi protestors against Americans are increasing day by day, and the U.S. enemies seem to be multiplying in Iraq. The Iraqis are not ready to accept the leadership of the U.S. government in Iraq but the United States is making every effort to rule in Iraq.

Melinda Liu narrates about the wartime at the Palestine hotel, Baghdad. He says that he saw an American warplane A-10 'Warthog', firing 3,900 rounds a minute at an unknown target and the most famous hotel Palestine in the world was shattered.

Iraq's capital city of Baghdad now has little law or order, with looters taking whatever they can from government buildings. Residents of the Baghdad slum called Saddam City are largely Shiites, who have been oppressed by Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated government for the past 30 years. Reprisal killings, perhaps even by Iranians or other outsiders, could be widespread.

The behind-the-scenes story of how Kofi Annan and the Americans shaped the accord that averted a war over Baghdad. Now, can the pact hold? Kofi Annan had heard stories about [...]

Ever since Operation Desert Storm, standoffs with Saddam Hussein have played out with a kind of unthreatening predictability. He huffs and puffs; the United States lobs a few cruise missiles [...]

At a windswept grave outside Shanghai, villagers still gossip about the day D.H. Tung came home. In 1990, more than four decades after the future leader of Hong Kong sailed [...]

IF THERE WAS A SINGLE moment when Madeleine Albright took her place in the Old Boys' Club, it came in March 1998. She was throwing a party for the new [...]

A LIGTHOUSE KEEPER ON A LONELY coastal headland may have been the only civilian witness to the event. Shortly after midnight, at his post on Taiwan's northeastern tip, Su Teh-tsun [...]

A healthy 30-year-old man presents with a 3-year history of an asymptomatic, fleshy papule at the base of his great toe. He denies any new lesions during this time, a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Pastor Bob Fu knows about life on the run. Back in 1996, when he and his wife lived in Beijing, they spent two months behind bars because [...]

Each day in Iraq, bodyguards knock on the front doors of more than a half-dozen homes. Then they announce: 'You'll have a guest tonight.' They allow the startled residents a [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu A top diplomat on a tough assignment. Wang Yi is urbane, multilingual, pragmatic, and, when needed, a wily negotiator. In short: he is everything a top diplomat [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Car ownership is out of control. So is pollution. 'Killer smog' has overtaken the Chinese capital. Authorities blamed the shockingly high pollution levels--the worst since records began [...]

Last week's summit, dominated by the debate on human rights, demonstrates just how far apart Washington and Beijing remain on key issues IT BEGAN, AS POSTSUMMIT PRESS conferences are apt [...]

At next week's summit, the Chinese president is determined to make America love him JIANG ZEMIN IS CURSED BY HIS cue cards. Under their spell he sounds like the Soviet-trained [...]

The early line on Albright: a secretary with great style, less substance. Now the Mideast looms. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is known for meetings as long and [...]

BY THE TIME THE flight to Hong Kong had reached 30,000 feet, Jerry Stuchiner's right eye bad stopped its nervous twitching. The 45-year-old officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service [...]

The article focuses on the blind Chinese human rights lawyer and political dissident Chen Guangcheng. Topics include Chen's escape from house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, the involvement of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in negotiations for his relocation to the U.S., and Chen's political activities in China.

The article discusses the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to the U.S. and China's intentions for it. Hu is profiled regarding his political ambitions and enigmatic nature. The history of the Hu clan is discussed. The author opines regarding the purpose of Hu's visit and whether substantive issues will be addressed or resolved.

The article discusses the emerging influence of China in various areas including security, international trade, and global financial markets. China played a pivotal role in creating the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and has helped establish a $120 billion regional reserve fund for Asian nations. China is pushing to make the yuan a rival to the U.S. dollar as a trading currency.

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 And how holograms can help. among china's greatest art treasures are the Buddhist caves near Dunhuang, an oasis on the fabled Silk Road that once linked China [...]

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 [...]

The article discusses China's infusion of capital into the economy to reduce the unrest and unease of its people. Using the example of Tang Yongming who murdered U.S. citizen Todd Bachman at Beijing's Drum Tower at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the article describes China's economic pressures, and how they produce anxiety within the country's population. The author details Tang's failures and the resultant depression that drove him to commit the murder.

This article examines the way in which Chinese citizens who have attended school in Occidental nations have not adopted a pro-Western attitude. The author argues that whereas the belief was that Chinese who studied in Europe or the U.S. would tend to be westernized, they are actually highly jingoistic. Reasons offered for this by the author include the ignorance of Westerners and feelings of home-sickness. Also discussed is the tendency of Chinese who have studied abroad to hold high political positions.