Shujun Wang seemed to be a Chinese democracy activist, but an F.B.I. investigation showed just how far China will go to ...

Although Deng led this process, he was aided at the time by the advice and work of a less heralded leader, Hu Yaobang. Hu does not enjoy the broad name recognition of Mao, Deng, and the leading ...

A full understanding of China’s economic downturn requires an understanding of its growth model as well as its politics.

The president-elect’s comments on Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal have the world debating how seriously to take him.

In 2006, he founded, with a group of prominent dissidents, a nonprofit in Flushing, Queens, called the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation, with the mission of promoting democracy in China.

Her encounter with the CCP’s General Secretary Hu Yaobang enabled her to visit poor farming villages and steel mills in undeveloped areas of China normally off-limits to foreigners. The ...

Those were titles for the people who worked for him, notably Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang. Hu Yaobang may have been the only person in the entire CCP shorter than Deng Xiaoping while Zhao Ziyang had ...

The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert . He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Jack Ford Shanghai Mystery [BH1] , which was recently named Earnshaw ...

Then, in mid-April 1989, Hu Yaobang, a general secretary in the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who was known for his liberalism and for being a staunch supporter of reforms within the ...