Lindsey Hilsum

North America

A hornet's nest for Obama

• 18 December 2008

Asia

Democracy, but not yet

• 25 September 2008
• 6 comments

The combination of being a journalist and a foreigner still makes you an object of extreme suspicion in China. Lindsey Hilsum's last letter from this fascinating country

Asia

After the Games, China must face reality

• 21 August 2008
• 12 comments

It's time for Beijing's bureaucrats to turn their attention to the real problems facing the country

Asia

Why China is frightened of horses

• 07 August 2008
• 5 comments

The Communist Party doesn't believe in anything - not in God, nor ghosts, nor spirits - so why are they so afraid of a picture?

Asia

The patriot games

• 31 July 2008
• 17 comments

Neighbourhoods have been razed, protesters silenced and human rights activists jailed. China will allow nothing to get in the way of the success of the Beijing Olympics

Asia

Beijing prepares for the no-fun Olympics

• 10 July 2008
• 10 comments

Factories shut, workers laid off, no frolicking on cars - in fact, forget fun - it's all for an Olympic games that will look on telly

Asia

Power shifts from the west to the rest

• 26 June 2008
• 4 comments

The economic order was transformed not by any altruistic movement or political awakening, but by globalised capitalism

Asia

Anger of the earthquake parents

• 12 June 2008

You might have thought that the parents of the estimated 9,000 children who died in the earthquake would be treated with respect and caution

Asia

China the aftermath

• 22 May 2008
• 3 comments

Chinese leaders have been praised for their response to the Sichuan earthquake, but the political fallout has only just begun, writes our woman in China

Asia

There are other Tibets

• 01 May 2008
• 5 comments

In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs