Mr. Tharoor, an inveterate charmer, in a lengthy conversation about terrorism, international politics, Indian democracy and China’s authoritarianism.

Though she talks a good game on female emancipation, Yue-Sai Kan is essentially teaching contestants through the Miss China Universe pageant how to become better marriage material for rich men, not self-sufficient women like herself.

By a Toronto Review correspondent* There were a lot of rumours and a lot of fear following the July 4, 2009 riots in Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwest Muslim province of Xinjiang. But by September of that year, the restrictions being placed on the city’s denizens — even during Ramadan, a tense period at [...]

China’s alternative arts scene is vibrant and thriving. But it is hamstrung by the lack of avenues to exploit and encourage new and existing art, Review Editor Laura Fitch writes. This is changing. But slowly.

Laura Fitch, the Review’s Senior Editor for China, as part of an ongoing project, has interviewed and photographed women in a series that examines the lives of a few women building a life in the capital of the world’s next superpower.

By Laura Fitch Zhang Sihao’s life might have turned out differently if his parents hadn’t taken him to a fortune-teller when he was in his early teens. Adopting the mystic’s advice, they changed his given name from Yi to Sihao, meaning “a love of poetry.” “Before that I was good at maths and science, says [...]

In a sleepy housing co-op west of Toronto, a Uighur woman struggles to care for her four sons. Her husband, an Imam and human rights activist, has been jailed in China, accused of encouraging and committing terrorism against the state. This is their story.