China's government has long made efforts to tempt top scientists from abroad, but researchers say its institutions themselves ...

China’s top two universities, Tsinghua and Peking, have edged closer to the global top ten; they are now ranked 12th and 13th respectively. Their ascent highlights China’s growing influence in global ...

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it. By Chris Buckley Beijing is ...

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In 20th-century biochemistry history of China, Szu-Chih Liu (刘思职, 1904—1983)(Fig. 1) acted as a central bridge in both ...

China’s Tsinghua University sits in northwest Beijing and stretches across roughly 1,200 acres. On a typical afternoon, ...