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China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on Jan. 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do so on the far side of the moon, often called the dark side. The ability to land on the far...

I have never been shy about singing, from glee club in elementary school to folk music as a teen, to jugband, bluegrass and country as a college student, to membership in the Southwest Bluegrass Association in...

From stray animals littering the revolutionary squares of Moscow to illegal migrants roaming the back alleyways of Beijing, today’s post-socialist cities are home to massive discrepancies in wealth and...

With Mandarin’s newfound popularity among non-Chinese, the long-standing political tensions between China and Taiwan has a new battleground—with language students caught in the crossfire.

This piece is published in partnership with China Focus, a student run blog sponsored by the 21st Century China Program at UC San Diego. You asked; New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos...

As business leaders and politicians alike have proclaimed, this may be China’s century. Which is why we at Hippo have invited American journalist Evan Osnos, who witnessed China’s transformation firsthand as The New Yorker’s China Correspondent, to be our next Ask Me Anything guest.

China’s rapidly developing economy—and resulting consumer culture—is re-popularizing one of the country’s oldest folk arts: “Like most things in China, where there is profit, there is counterfeit.