As labels big and small attempt to gain traction in the world’s largest market, they’re learning that selling pop is never simple in the epicenter of piracy.

Working from a tiny shop in Chinatown, Sister Ping brought in thousands of Chinese immigrants by boat, bringing in over $40 million. Then one of her ships ran aground.

Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.

Solving the mystery of Wilbur Ross’ missing fortune.

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.

Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

Illness, family, and the weight of history.

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

There’s an angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.

How a touring dance company battles the Chinese Communist Party.

The legendary stuntman launches a new phase of his expansive career.

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.

How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.

How did an obscure artist who survived the Cultural Revolution become a viral sensation and suddenly the surreal, sexy center of Fashion Week?

The city’s radical pro-democracy movement faces a stiff test from Mainland China.

A cabbie and a passenger discuss Chinese economics and generational gaps.

How a poet and an architect rescued a nation’s riches.

The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States?

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.