China's first generation of wealthy entrepreneurs begins passing on $2.1trn to heirs, creating inheritance disputes and deepening inequality as economic growth slows.

BEIJING: Li Qinrui sank into her couch, her mind still buzzing from a hectic day at the office. Outside, Beijing hummed with its usual energy, but inside her apartment, it was a different world.

Visitors look at exhibits at The Proof of Early China: The Civilizations of Songze and Liangzhu, the second in The Essence of China exhibition series at the Shanghai Museum on June 20, 2023.[Photo ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

A scene from the historical drama Swords Into Plowshares, which has raised public interest in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) period. [Photo provided to China Daily] The recent popular ...

In this opinion piece, Vinson Xavier Palathingal argues that recent geopolitical tensions involving Iran, Venezuela, Panama, ...

It has been endorsed by Charles Burton, Canada’s former ambassador to China, and Jonathan Manthorpe, a former Vancouver Sun ...

For weeks, leaders and policy makers watched the US military build-up in the Middle East. They heard the threats of the Trump ...

Germany's Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) speaks during a press statement before his departure for China, in Brandenburg, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP) Germany ...

China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...

This is the second article in a three-part series on the history of horses in China, which we’re running to usher in the Year of the Horse. Read Part 1. The Year of the Horse is upon us. Throughout ...

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged. In China’s case, history is ...