An amateur soccer league, initiated by farmers, students, and workers in rural China, has captivated millions and inspired city leagues, offering hope for nurturing homegrown talent. Overwhelming ...

WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Residents of a southern Chinese village on Saturday elected a reformist leader to run a new administrative authority that many hail as a model for greater grassroots democracy ...

This weekend China will see an exercise of democracy in an unlikely place — a village that just months ago had been in a tense standoff with police. Voters in Wukan, a coastal village of 12,000 in ...

(New York) – Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent ...