South China Morning Post

Hundreds of protesters ransacked Hong Kong’s parliament on July 1, the anniversary of the city’s handover to Chinese rule.

They broke windows, dismantled furniture and painted graffiti inside the building.

Brian Leung Kai-ping, 25 and a graduate student at the University of Washington, was among those who entered the legislature – and the only one who openly revealed his identity that night.

The storming made international headlines and marked a “quantum leap” for the entire movement against…

Chinese fans may love NBA players and African-American entertainers, but they’re upset with Disney’s decision to cast Halle Bailey to play Ariel in the live-action movie adaption of The Little Mermaid.

Disney announced the casting of 19-year-old Bailey, who is black, this week.

While the casting was largely praised on Western social media, it triggered a wave of disappointment and anger on the Chinese internet. 

“I don’t discriminate against black people, but the Little Mermaid is just not…

It’s a style of undress that often catches the eye of visitors: middle-aged men going about their business with their T-shirts rolled up to expose their torsos.

This is a phenomenon that is ubiquitous across China during the scorching summers. Now, as parts of the country wilt under a scorching heat wave, some cities are going after people trying to cool down the natural way. 

People in China describe this particular kind of topless guys as “bang ye,” meaning men – usually in their middle age…

After a string of dismissals, some Chinese-American researchers say they're increasingly worried about being caught between Beijing and Washington as they feud over technology and trade.

In May, the husband-and-wife neuroscience research team of Li Xiaojiang and Li Shihua was fired by Emory University in Georgia after being accused of failing to disclose funding ties to China.

In April, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ousted three Chinese-American researchers who were allegedly…

Guo Meimei, an infamous online celebrity in China, will soon be freed after spending years behind bars. 

Found guilty in 2015 of running an illegal casino in Beijing, Guo will be released on July 13, according to the Beijing News. 

Guo hit the national and international headlines in 2011. And not because of her gambling.

That year, the then 20 year-old woman ignited widespread concern about the credibility of state-run charities, just a few years after people donated generously in the wake…

For the past three weeks, multiple protests against a now-suspended extradition bill have roiled Hong Kong.

Inkstone has previously reported on how the mostly young demonstrators rest, eat and pee.

And how the leaderless movement organized themselves.

On the evening of July 1, the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, a much smaller group of more radical activists shocked the world by charging into and ransacking the city’s legislature to express their grievances toward the…

Hundreds of Hong Kong activists stormed into the city’s legislature on July 1, the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to Chinese rule. 

One of their key demands was for the government to unequivocally withdraw a contentious extradition bill that critics said could blur the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous city and mainland China. 

Hong Kong’s embattled government condemned the violent takeover of the building by mostly young demonstrators.

China’s central…

China paints its internment camps in Xinjiang as humane “boarding schools.” But a researcher has found evidence to refute the claims from the government's own documents.

Adrian Zenz, an independent German researcher focusing on Xinjiang, has examined voluminous government documents to determine what he calls the “true nature and extent” of the camps, finding evidence of coercive internment, heavy presence of police guards and political brainwashing.

The research was published on the website…

Young Chinese aren’t buying a proposal by legislators to lower the legal minimum age for marriage in an effort to combat the country’s looming demographic crisis. 

Last week, several members of the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislative body, proposed lowering the minimum marriage age to 18 for both sexes. Currently, the legal minimum age is 22 for men and 20 for women.

Zhang Sujun, one of the body’s Standing Committee members, who proposed the change, said the proposal…

What’s new in Shanghai? Residents of China’s wealthy eastern megacity have embarked on an all-consuming learning spree to identify garbage types, as new recycling rules take effect. 

On Sunday, local officials held city-wide events to educate residents about four types of household waste, a day before regulations on garbage sorting went into force on July 1.  

At the central business district of Jingan, performers struck forceful beats on tall garbage cans in a synchronized drum performance…