Beijing Review

President: Li Yafang Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate President: Yan Ying Associate Editor in Chief: Liu Yunyun Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editor: Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Executive Assistant: Li Fangfang Editors

Following more than six years of preparations, the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 are ready for action. Scheduled to take place from February 4 to 20, the Olympic Winter Games will feature 109 events across seven categories: biathlo

China has published an English language edition of Aquatic Plants of China, a book recording 885 species of freshwater and marine plants in China, Xinhua News Agency reported on January 10. While China’s diversity of aquatic plants is among the highe

Yan Jinhai, former acting chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, was appointed the region’s chairman at the Fifth Session of the region’s 11th people’s congress on January 7. An ethnic Tibetan, Yan was born in 1962 in Qinghai Province.

Over many months of training, test events and qualification matches, athletes have been thoroughly preparing themselves, both mentally and physically, for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Comments to wanghairong@cicgamericas.com

The U.S., New Zealand, UK, Canadian and Australian governments in December of last year successively announced their “diplomatic boycott” of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 under the pretext of the so-called human rights issue in

Sparked by a fuel price hike on New Year’s Day, violent protests against the government erupted in Kazakhstan on January 2. The protests soon spread throughout the Central Asian nation. Facing the worst unrest in the country’s history since gaining i

When devastating floods struck Zhengzhou in central China in August 2021, BBC journalists reporting on the disaster claimed that they encountered a lot of verbal abuse, both online and in real life. Chinese netizens accused BBC journalist Robin Brant

‘Elon Musk” and “Xinjiang” together grabbed global headlines in early January, as his electric car company Tesla opened its newest showroom in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region—much to the dismay of Washington and human rights activ

At eight months pregnant, a woman from Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, lost her baby after being left waiting outside a local hospital for two hours due to expired nucleic acid test results, on January 1. Her heartbreaking expe

Annie Kathryn Lowdermilk, an American singer and actress living in Beijing, has a beautiful face yet a very masculine Chinese name—Tang Bohu, named after a Casanova poet and painter who lived during China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). “He’s a crazy gen

Almost seven years after winning its bid to host the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China will finally present its long-prepared competition venues to the world next month. In addition to the architectural design of the venues, the visual identity

Every so often, a Chinese fashion icon unwittingly flipped the fashion slash beauty landscape upside down. This time, we unearth the imperial tomb of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). And her spiking passion for swanky nails. They say you’re