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Shi Yinhong responds to Martin Jacques’ article and focuses on how modern China sees itself and its history.

Are we correct in viewing Chinese factory workers as victims of inhuman corporations? Chang argues that workers ‘deserve our interest and respect instead of our pity.’

Ma Jian, author of Beijing Coma, returns to visit Tiananmen Square with her young son and reflects on her memories of the protests, talking to others who experienced the events from different perspectives.

Find out how the momentous events of 1989, including the Tiananmen protests, influenced Generation X and how they may shape the way our current leaders respond to world events and crises.

Discover more about the events of 4 June and how they will continue to have an impact on the future of China, despite the government's attempt to supress details about the massacre.

Are you a ‘bright young thing,’ an ‘urban cool’ or a ‘crash pad professional’? Explore a breakdown of London consumer profiles, and see which category you might fit into based on income, values and how you view the world.

Robert Hirsch on Susan Sontag's book on the ethics of photography, Regarding the Pain of Others.

How does the Chinese government control internet use?

In the summer of 2001, I was living in a factory, in a village, in central China. I was in the middle of a two-year stint of fieldwork for my PhD.

It was hot. So hot in fact, that the factory’s furnaces blazed only during the night, for fear that workers would succumb in the day. Most nights, I lay awake into the small hours, sweating, my senses overloaded by the clangs and flashes from the factory courtyard.

One morning, I was roused by one of the labourers. He announced that a VIP, Mr. Liu, had driven from the city during the night to collect me. Mr. Liu was a senior regional official who had taken me under his wing. I knew him well and we had become close. In fact, he had taken me out on many trips before, though never perhaps with quite this sense of urgency. I got dressed, washed the sweat out of my eyes with a bottle of drinking water, and went to the factory gates to meet him.

Find out how an American corporation and Chinese consumers are working together to create a greener future.

Explore images showing the extent of water pollution in China.

Find out more about the ficitional and the not-so-ficitional people that feature in Chimerica.

Find out what it takes to become an air stewardess in China.

Assistant Director Choon Ping explains the references to American culture in Chimerica.

Find out how Western businesses think about the Chinese marketplace.

Discover why Beijing residents describe the atmosphere in the city as “postapocalyptic,” “terrifying” and “beyond belief.”

Assistant Director Choon Ping explains the references to Chinese culture in Chimerica.

Find out what happened when a Chinese clerk accidently accepted an advert referencing the Tiananmen Square protests for publication.

“A photograph is not an opinion,” mused Susan Sontag. “Or is it?”

It may be a mission. Exemplary practitioners like Robert Capa, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, James Nachtwey and Gilles Peress are documentarists who refuse to be confined by that description. They are witnesses. But they are not neutral. They have a point of view – they are against forgetting. “What sustains me is the overall value in communicating,” says Nachtwey.

Find out more about the economic relationship between America and China.

Don McCullin talks about his life as a war photographer and the ethics of taking photographs of the suffering of others.

View some of Don McCullin's most famous photographs.

Photo: Laihiuyeung Ryanne.

Find out more about the reasons for and the major events that took place during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

Map by Cacahuate, amendments by Peter Fitzgerald and ClausHansen (based on the map of China by PhiLiP)

Discover more about the history of China from 1700BC to the present day.