No political pundit would argue that democracy and transparency are conducive to swift action and efficient development. That is exactly the approach of state-led development, championed by China and ...

This is the first installment of Josh Leon’s ongoing column, which takes a global view of issues facing cities. The International Olympic Committee, which is fresh off of allowing one of the largest ...

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TANGJIALING, China | Liu Jun sleeps in a room so small that he shares a bed with two other men. It’s all the scrawny computer engineering graduate can afford in a city so expensive that the average ...

A woman walks through a hutong in Beijing. There’s an element of truth to each. Wang Ruishu, a native Beijinger who recently graduated from Parsons, grew up in a hutong two miles southeast of Mao’s ...

BEIJING—China's new leaders are counting on urbanization to remake the economy but have tried to limit the flow to the country's largest cities, fearing that a surge in migration could turn them into ...