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The Grandfather Paradox is a thought experiment about time travel and paradoxes. It was the plot point of the first Back II The Future film. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you would erase yourself from your family’s timeline. So, how could you do this if…

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the Vietnam War, trying psychedelic drugs, embracing free love and discovering the Beatles. Meanwhile, what their contemporaries in China were getting up to was just as transformative.

As he turns 90 this week, the Dalai Lama has announced that he will be reincarnated, setting his followers on a collision course with China. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar speaks to activists and the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile about what this means for the future of Tibetan Buddhism

During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China’s universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary…

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

As the US descends into chaos, China is pitching itself as the steadier player. But Europe should be wary of its advances, says Orville Schell of the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society

As US and Chinese representatives prepare to meet in Switzerland in an effort to ease their escalating trade war, a potential sign of Beijing’s approach has emerged in an opinion piece published in the state-owned journal Beijing Daily.

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

The 20th century was full of techno-utopian visions of the ideal future society. None of them ended well

Mohamed-Zain Dada makes a darkly comic drama out of a speed awareness course, while clever design elevates Amy Ng’s play about Madame Mao

In the latest revelation of Chinese influence among the Taiwanese armed forced, at least 62 active-duty Taiwanese service members have been found holding Chinese residency permits