I wrote about a talented true crime producer who died by suicide, the collapsing factual tv industry, and our broken NHS Guardian G2 theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

"For most performers, the biggest fear about staging a new play is that no one will come." For Chiayo Kuo, "her biggest fear was that someone might shoot the cast" Great piece by Chi-Hui (Summer) Lin about the challenges of putting on a play about Taiwan theguardian.com/stage/article/…

David Neuberger head quits media freedom role over work as judge in Hong Kong theguardian.com/world/article/…

I interviewed the director of a cool new Chinese noir that has been a surprise hit in China - and is released in the UK today theguardian.com/film/article/2…

Chinese woman loses final appeal in her fight to freeze her eggs theguardian.com/world/article/…

The Guardian's Amy Hawkins has written a terrific piece on the still on-going legal battle between Li Rui's widow still in #China & Stanford's Hoover Institute for his handwritten diaries--which are of course invaluable to historians of the PRC. theguardian.com/world/article/…

⁦Controlling the past to control the present: Amy Hawkins⁩ on why the Communist Party is trying to grab documents housed ⁦Stanford University⁩ ⁦Hoover Institution⁩, with quotes by ⁦Joseph Torigian Frank Dikötter and⁩ yours truly. theguardian.com/world/article/…

"Some see in his critique of the Mao era parallels to today: the arbitrary rule of an aging leader, harsh treatment of dissent, and government programs that encourage people to inform on one another." My profile of Gao Ertai in The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/persons-o…

Any gweilo knows that Hong Kong ghouls are notoriously shy with the language barrier.

The diaries of Li Rui, a prominent CCP veteran and critic, are at the center of a legal case. Housed at Hoover Institution Library & Archives, his widow and possibly the CCP want them back. Read Amy Hawkins with insights from Hoover Institution fellows Joseph Torigian and Frank Dikötter:bit.ly/3MdGEVK

My review of Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, the new book by Peter Hessler theguardian.com/books/article/…

Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping just had their first phone call, at Starmer's request, according to Chinese media: baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=180817331…

I'm so grateful for the 300+ signatures on the petition calling on WSJ to reinstate me, org'd by IAPE TNG/CWA 1096 & supported by the NewsGuild-CWA. Thank you. I hope WSJ will respond. The press is stronger when their reporters can join unions. The right to unionize is a basic human right.

My interview with Guan Hu, the director of Black Dog, a moody noir-meets-western about an ex-convict, a dog, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics theguardian.com/film/article/2…

1/ 🚨BREAKING: Two former chief editors of defunct outlet Stand News have been found guilty of sedition, marking the first such conviction of journalists in Hong Kong since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. In full: hongkongfp.com/2024/08/29/bre…

"Put bluntly, China and America are two giant powers with mutually incompatible ambitions."

Abdul Rahman was a newborn when the Gaza war began. Now the ten-month-old is the first confirmed polio case in Gaza in 25 years, helpless to fight off the disease that grips his small body. Jeremy Diamond tells his story.

"After all, it’s hard for us to do politics in reality, so we have to do it in a group chat" theguardian.com/world/article/…

Two of my best friends met in the smoking area and fell in love and now they are in the Guardian! save the smoking areas!! theguardian.com/music/article/…