In a dark way, we all expected the news. And yet when it came, it still made his friends and family flinch, and shake our heads at the calculated evil…
In a dark way, we all expected the news. And yet when it came, it still made his friends and family flinch, and shake our heads at the calculated evil…
We landed in Beijing at dusk, descending through a thick winter smog that shrouded the airfield and the rest of this teeming metropolis. In a misguided effort to save a…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2010 BEIJING — In the sweltering heat of summer, when the refreshing breezes desert the city, Hu Lianqun absent-mindedly reaches for…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2010 YICHANG, China — White-haired Zhao Chengmu lives just below the Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest construction project since the Great…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2010 PHOTOGRAPH by China Daily BEIJING — For many Chinese, he’s a curious conundrum, an emerging national figure with some serious…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2010 PHOTOGRAPH by RFA.org BEIJING — Using a crude sawed-off stick as a cane, Shi Yaping waited outside a government office,…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2008 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times DANDONG, China — Here at the Museum of the War to Resist American Aggression…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2008 PHOTOGRAPH by Forbes magazine PANZHAUNGZI, China — Before dawn each day, Gao Penghong and his wife join scores of other…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2008 BEIJING – In 10 years on China’s highest court, Xuan Dong had a hand in the executions of 1,000 people…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2007 BEIJING — Lisa Misraje Bentley watches the boy in the No. 8 jersey as he careens across the soccer field…