BEIJING--The ashes of late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. A special plane carrying the ...

Following a series of unprecedented protests against Covid restrictions, Jiang Zemin's death comes at an uncertain moment for China. As someone inextricably linked to Tiananmen - he came to power ...

Jiang Zemin has never publicly wavered in his defense of the military crackdown that left hundreds, perhaps thousands dead. "Had the Chinese government not taken the resolute measures then ...

BEIJING--Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade ...

Toads, spectacles and the word "grandpa" figure in posts by people in China as they remember the late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and try to avoid the censors. Members of China's top leadership ...

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin is dead at 96, per reports from Chinese state media. Jiang's death was announced by the Chinese state-media outlet Xinhua News, which ran a letter from the ...

Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs above the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The details of that ...

Many Chinese associate the late Jiang with an era seen as brighter and more hopeful than the literal and figurative lockdown Xi has brought upon China. Jiang led China from 1989 to 2002 ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

Through your camera lens, explore the tranquil beauty of the Dead Sea. Whether seeking creative inspiration or a mental reset, landscape photography offers a quiet getaway from the daily grind.

Jess Jiang is a Senior Supervising Editor for Planet Money. Previously, Jiang was a producer for NPR's podcast Rough Translation, where she helped tell deeply personal stories like the delicate ...

Jiang led China from 1989 to 2002, a period that saw explosive growth in China’s economy and global status but also laid the seeds for many of the issues facing the country today. Fang, the ...