Nian Guangjiu, a sunflower seed seller, passed away last week. His diminished status in the public consciousness by the time of his death belies his importance in China's economic history. While he ...

In May 1981, I visited China with David Rockefeller and several other members of the Trilateral Commission. It was an exciting time in China. The Cultural Revolution had ended five years earlier with ...

(CNN) -- Deng Xiaoping was many things to many people. He was the great reformer, the party recalcitrant, the liberal visionary. But in 1989, he forever became the man who ordered the military to put ...

Ezra F. Vogel, a Harvard professor specializing in Far East affairs, has won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book about China under Deng Xiaoping. Ezra Vogel has won the Lionel Gelber Prize for ...

Victor Gao, who once served as a translator for late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and is known for promoting Beijing's political stance, has sparked criticism after issuing a veiled threat to the ...