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The article reports on Taoist leaders Li Kwei-ying and Chiang Chang-en in Hunan Province in China who were sentenced to death for allegedly preparing paper-made warships and armaments in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the dead and attack the Communist Party. It notes that for Taoist, objects can be passed to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. It says that at first the two were given only eight years but a mass demonstration protested that it was a too light punishment.

The article reports on the documents of Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung during the 1966-1968 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Accordingly, the document include the secret letters, speeches, and other writings of the great Chinese leader. It notes that the documents, owned by the U.S. State Department, show the interests of Mao Tse-Tsung on proverbs, folk tales, and metaphors.

The article focuses on the issue regarding the suspended visit of Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk in the Soviet Union in 1965. It mentions the event in North Korea, during Sihanouk's state visit, when a Soviet ambassador allegedly met and praised him, but gave him an old paper stating that the Soviet leaders were busy to welcome him on the appointed November 7, 1965 visit in Russia. It also relates on the previous state visit made by Sihanouk in Red China, which is in conflict with Russia.

The article discusses the last respect executed by the supporters of Premier Chou Enlai in Peking, China. It states that Chou died of cancer at the age of 77 and his body lay in state, draped in the flag of the Chinese Communist Party. The supporters expressed their grieve through wearing of white paper flowers on their padded winter jackets and gathered to place wreaths around the Monument of the People's Heroes. It also provides an overview of the Chou's eulogy and his cremation. Moreover, other topics concerning the death of Chou are also presented.

The article discusses the activities of 32 Chinese journalists who accompanied China Vice Premier Teng Hsiaop'ing during his visit in the U.S. in 1979. It states that one Chinese television producer on the trip claimed that the journalists aimed to strengthen the friendship of Americans and Chinese. It adds that the journalists made television broadcasts on the successful visit of the Vice Premier to the U.S. and disregarded incidents that may damage the reputation of the U.S. in China. It also says that the broadcasts made an impact to the people of China particularly in the region of Peking. Furthermore, it provides details on activities made by the Premier such as his visits to a plant of Ford Motor Co. in Atlanta, Georgia and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The article focuses on Cowles family, their Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. and its newspaper "Minneapolis Tribune and Star." It notes that above any Midwestern rivals, Cowles' papers showcase reporting and editorials that apt to tell how the world is evolving and what time it is. It tells that the Cowles had supported the Berlin, Germany and U.S. hostilities into Korean war, but when Communist China intervened, they urged U.S. to pull back, implying that Korea might be strategically futile.

The article discusses how several scandals involving scientific research are calling into question the validity of some science-related published work as of 2015, and it mentions a scientific fraud scam involving a Chinese publishing company. It states that Japanese postoperative nausea expert Yoshitaka Fujii's name is attached to 183 retractions involving scientific articles. Irregularities in the Springer Publishing Company's peer-review process are also examined.

The article offers information on the Chinese president Xi Jinping. Particular focus is given to his approach to bad press. Additional topics discussed include the Panama Papers leak, which makes allegations against Chinese leaders, criticism faced by the president inside China, and China's importance in the global economy.

The article focuses on "Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao" (Righteous China Daily News), the only newspaper in Quemoy Island. It notes that the seven-says-a-week paper, backed by Quemoy Military Defense Command, reserves most of its 7,000 daily copies for free distribution to troops and sells the balance to local villagers. It tells that the Red Chinese artillery that had propelled 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August 1958 gave severe difficulties to Director Tsao Yi-fan and editor Huang Pang-fu.

The article reports on the execution of counterrevolutionaries by the Communists in China. It was reported in a Communist paper in Hunan province that landowners were being executed by peasant militiamen armed with spears and rifles. It is noted that the killing in China has raised concerns among Communist leaders in Peking and public trials and executions were excuses for the failure of Chinese forces to win the war in Korea.

Mentions United States Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering's efforts to convince Chinese officials that the bombing of their Belgrade embassy by North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces was a mistake. Response from Chinese; US positions outlined in the Xinhua News Agency; Number of US papers invited to the American briefing.

The article focuses on issues involving Mao Zedong's last wife Chiang Ch'ing and the China's radical Gang of Four. It notes that when Chiang Ch'ing, sometimes referred to as Madame Mao, was pointed out in an alleged attempt to seize and bid power after Mao's death in September 1966, she is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. It says that the pictorial attack on Madame Mao plastered in public buildings and walls has been heightened by a 9,000-word editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily that offers a full account of the plots pulled by the gang some time around the death of Mao. Meanwhile, it says that it is still unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by the supporters of the gang or factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies.

The article focuses on the implications of the appointment of Kao Kang at the Chinese State Planning Committee. Kao has been the Communist leader of Mukden. His appointment was applauded by a group of Soviet artists. According to the author, Kao's appointment abolishes six regional government and military administrations in favor of centralization.

The article focuses on the publication of several newspapers and periodicals in China.

The article offers information on the observations on China by "Time" correspondent Jerrold L. Schecter who was allowed to stay in the country after the Peking summit. His observations include China's industrial ingenuity through homegrown industries including the Shanghai Watch Factory, which was founded in 1955 and has 55 workers, and the Shanghai Automobile Factory which produces two-ton trucks. Schecter also noticed some Chinese cultures including premarital sex which is considered a taboo.

The article examines the growing influence of China on Latin American through foreign trade deals and economic assistance. Topics discussed include Chinese investments in the region which are focused on infrastructure such as ports, roads, and dams, the political returns reaped by China from its investments, and the implication of Chinese influence in the region for U.S.-Latin America relations.

The article discusses a report based on a handout calling for a more liberalized U.S. policy toward Communist China in 1966. It states that the piece was written by "The New York Times" bureau chief Tom Wicker emphasizing that the handout had been signed by 198 academic experts in China belonging to the Association for Asian Studies. It also notes the defiance of Peter Gosling, the association's national secretary, citing that Wicker's article was factually inaccurate.

The article reports on the cold war between Russia and China. It mentions that the nature and size of the break up can shape the course of the cold war and the strategists from the West have studied the evidence to help function its dimensions. It notes that despite the deepness and reality of the split, both countries are Communist and are dedicated to the same determined end winning of the world to Marxism.

The article features a man named Michael Patrick O'Brien, a passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry who is travelling back and forth across the China Sea. O'Brien had no passport and the only identification he has is a Red Cross certificate in which he was addressed as a stateless Irishman. It notes that O'Brien has been sailing for 40 years to reach the Portuguese outpost of Macao in China. When the ferry landed in Hong Kong in October 1952, British officials did not allow him to get off because his papers were not in order.

The article features Chinese artist Huang Chun-pi, who had his first exhibition in the U.S. in October 1957 showing 40 of his landscape paintings. It says that Huang had been a recognized painter when he was 20, making sketching trips across the wild, misty mountain gorges of the Kialing River. It also states that Huang celebrated his first U.S. trip by going directly from Los Angeles, California to Yosemite National Park, saying that hi missed most the mist of the Kialing River.

The article focuses on the permission given by the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to 24 news-gathering organizations in U.S. to send their reporters to mainland China. It says that Dulles' decision was criticized by the press because of its limitation on the number of legitimate and accredited correspondents. Moreover, editors protested on the discrimination to small papers like Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The article focuses on the restriction of number of newsmen that will cover for the presidential visit of Richard Nixon in China on February 1971. It mentions that the White House will choose for 80 newsmen from the 2, 000 applicants which should include 30 for television (TV) reporters, 20 for journalists and technicians and 20 for daily newspapers. It states that the newsmen will have access for Chinese interviews, tours of schools, and invitations to the state banquets.

The article describes reasons for absence of euphoria in the celebration of Communist party chairman Mao Tse-tung army's triumph over the nationalists during 1949 on October 1, 1971 in Peking, China. It explores the possible reasons behind the absence of euphoria in the celebrations. It describes the reason to be the speculations about the demise of Mao and Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao. It also discusses the speculation on the involvement of a Chinese defector former President Liu Shaochi regarding whom important papers and documents were found in the wreckage of a Chinese air force plane crash in Northeast Mongolia.

The article presents news briefs on various events. Topics discussed include political violence in Jordan during protests against King Abdullah, the social support shown for Syrian president Bashar Assad, and the competitive advantage of China over the U.S. in terms of projected scientific output by 2013.

Images of the national election in Pashakha, Bhutan, pollution in Beijing, China and a Russian launch of navigation satellites are presented.

Discusses how two fossil finds in China suggest that early mammals were larger and more aggressive than conventional wisdom claims. Description of the fossils, one which demolishes the notion that dinosaur-age mammals were never larger than squirrels, and the other, which refutes the notion that it was the mammals that got eaten; Significance of the fossil containing baby dinosaur remains; Implication of the finds.

The article discusses five publishers who disappeared in China, and it mentions intolerance in the country and the possibility that the Chinese government has kidnapped several of its critics. According to the article, publisher Gui Minhai and four other men who are associated with his Mighty Current Media publishing firm are missing. Gui Minhai's business partner Lee Bo, who was last seen on December 30, 2015, is mentioned. China's economy and mass media control are also assessed.

The article focuses on the campaign to protect the endangered peafowl in China in 2021. Topics discussed include the importance of the pheasant in Chinese art and its relation with the mythical phoenix, role of the beauty of the green peafowl to threats to its species, and efforts of China to provide a natural breeding ground to the green peafowl population in Yunnan.

The article reports on the political campaign of Deng Xiaoping, the deputy party chairman and the most powerful leader in China. The campaign intends to impose obedience to the Communist Party's dictates. However, majority of the writers and artists have complained of depriving themselves from free expression due to the national campaign.

The article offers information related to the quality of reports by watchers in Hong Kong, China. It comments that since the watchers must settle for secondary sources from newspapers, radio, returning visitors, they tend to keep their conclusions conservative. It states that the watchers have some evidence that could affect many parts of the country.

The article reports on various revolutions in Peking, China. These include the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Maoist riots, threats and demonstrations, and the retributory action by their own citizens. In response, Burma is planning to deal with 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The Outer Mongolia has broken off its relationship with the country in the heat of Red Guard attacks on the Mongolian embassy in Peking.

Several letter to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including an article related to new genetics, in the April 19, 1971 issue, an article related to foreign relations of China and the U.S., in the April 26, 1971 issue, and an article "Tumult Over Timbering," in the April 19, 1971 issue.

The article reports on the use of the results of the Gallup poll in April 1951 by the anti-Communist "New York Post" and Manhattan's "Daily Worker" to bolster their opposition to U.S. General Douglas MacArthur. The newspapers claimed that majority of U.S. citizens did not support the general's policies of enhancing the war against Chinese Communists. However, the newspapers failed to tackle the question whether bombing Chinese cities and supply bases would end the Korean war.

The article discusses the creation of China's Dong Feng-21D land-based ballistic missile and the effect it could have on the hegemony of aircraft carriers in naval warfare, and of the U.S. in the Pacific Ocean. Topics include efforts by the U.S. Navy to counter the missile, the lack of public discussion from U.S. and Chinese officials about it, and the ways China has been building up its navy since 1949.

The article discusses the political and social atmosphere in China in 2012 in light of two newsworthy global incidents involving separate attempts by an allegedly corrupt Chinese police chief named Wang Lijun and blind activist Chen Guangcheng to garner support from the U.S. government and diplomatic agencies. Wang reported to the U.S. on the alleged involvement of Chinese politician Bo Xilai and his wife actress Gu Kailai in the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Guangcheng reportedly sought asylum in the U.S. because he was facing jail time for his defense of women in the Shandong province of China who were forced to receive abortions or sterilizations.

The article discusses the practice of self-immolation by Tibetan monks and examines Tibetans' feelings of hopelessness regarding Chinese rule of Tibet. Information is provided on how the self-immolation of six Tibetans, including Tsewang Norbu on August 15, 2011, caused a Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protests. Topics include how the Chinese government has jailed thousands of Tibetans, forced some into propaganda classes, and closed Tibetan areas to foreigners. It is noted how the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has attempted to obtain autonomy for Tibet with no success.

The article discusses increases in rates of rhinoceros horn poaching in South Africa despite a ban on international horn trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). The African white rhinoceros had overcome extinction but is at risk due to high levels of poaching in South Africa, which contains the majority of the world's rhinoceros population, despite police attempts to arrest poachers. The article attributes the increase in poaching to increased interest in traditional medicine in Vietnam, where rhinoceros horn is reputed to cure cancer, and China. The author discusses rhinoceros breeding programs in China that provide horns to pharmaceutical companies and new tools to harvest horns from live rhinoceroses.

The article looks at the reaction of China to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to imprisoned literary critic and poet, Liu Xiaobo. Liu's political activities as a Chinese dissident are reviewed, including leading the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement which ended with a massacre in Beijing, China. The author questions how many Chinese citizens are aware that Liu has won the Nobel Peace Prize, noting that China restricts the information that its Internet users are able to access by using firewalls. The political attitude of the Chinese Communist Party is reviewed.

Focuses on Hu Jintao, President of China. Assertion that he remains an enigma to the outside world; Way that he runs the country.

The article profiles the contributions of 23-year-old sprinter Usain Bolt for his consideration as a runner-up for this magazine's Person of the Year for 2009. According to the article, Bolt brought international attention to his country of Jamaica when he broke the 100-meter world record in Beijing, China at the 2008 Olympics. Bolt's childhood in Trelawny, Jamaica, his first interest in cricket, and his efforts to help his country are discussed.