In 1999, a new religious movement occupied China’s capital. The regime would never be the same.

When we in the West talk about differences within China, the narrative is usually about the urban-rural divide. Yet I lived in Guangzhou in the south and Beijing in the north-both cities of over ...

HARBIN, China — (AP) — Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in northeast China’s ice city of Harbin.