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October 2026

Culture

Cui Jian and the Rise of Chinese Rock Music

In May 1986 a concert was held at the Workers’ Gymnasium in Beijing to mark the International Year of Peace declared by the United Nations.

People

Yang Liwei and the Shenzhou 5 Flight of 2003

At nine o’clock in the morning, Beijing time, on 15 October 2003, a Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the desert of western Inner Mongolia, carrying a spacecraft named Shenzhou 5 and a single passenger, an air force pilot of thirty-eight named Yang Liwei.

Science & Tech

The South–North Water Transfer Project

On 12 December 2014 the gates of a canal head at Taocha, on the shore of the Danjiangkou reservoir in the south-west of Henan province, were opened, and water from the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze, began to flow northward along a channel more than 1,200 kilometres long towards Beijing.

Places

The Qinghai–Tibet Railway, 2006

On 1 July 2006 the first scheduled passenger trains left Golmud in Qinghai and Lhasa in Tibet, travelling in opposite directions across the highest plateau on earth.

Economy

The Xiaogang Village Contract and the Household Responsibility System, 1978

On a winter night in late November 1978, in a small village in the hills of Fengyang County in the province of Anhui, the heads of eighteen households gathered in a mud-walled house and put their names and red thumbprints to a short handwritten document.

High-key editorial illustration of a Chinese writer in an indigo jacket seated at a low wooden table beneath a mulberry tree in a rural Shandong courtyard, writing in an open notebook with a brush pen, a clay ink pot and plain teacup beside him and a small plain cinnabar red square on the table, behind a grey-capped earthen wall and a flat field of standing sorghum under pale gold morning light.

People

Mo Yan and the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

On 11 October 2012 Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, opened the doors of the Academy's hall in the Old Town of Stockholm and announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for that year had been awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan, "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

High-key editorial illustration of a Chinese engineer in a grey-blue work jacket at a plain grey control panel in a 1980s Shanxi coal power station, one hand on a round dial and a notebook in the other, looking toward a wide window with a concrete cooling tower, pylons and pale gold sky beyond, and a single small cinnabar red lamp on the desk.

Culture

Liu Cixin and the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction

On 22 August 2015, at the World Science Fiction Convention held in Spokane, Washington, the Hugo Award for Best Novel was given to The Three-Body Problem, a book by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin, translated into English by Ken Liu.

High-key editorial illustration of a vast covered wholesale market hall in Yiwu, steel roof trusses and pale gold daylight, long rows of stalls piled with small goods, boxes of buttons and zips, stacked basins and paper decorations, merchants at their stalls and buyers with sack carts in the wide central aisle, one bundle of cinnabar red ribbon the single accent.

Places

Yiwu and the World’s Largest Small-Commodities Market

In the centre of Zhejiang province, about three hundred kilometres south-west of Shanghai, a county-level city of some two million people has become the largest wholesale market for small commodities in the world.

High-key editorial illustration of a formal ministerial conference hall in the Gulf in 2001, long white-clothed tables with delegates in dark suits seated in two ranks, one rising to speak, tall shuttered windows casting pale gold light, a row of muted indigo, grey and cream flags along the far wall with one cinnabar red flag among them.

Economy

China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001

On 10 November 2001, at a ministerial conference held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the members of the World Trade Organization approved by consensus the terms on which the People’s Republic of China would join them.

High-key editorial illustration of a county-town street in north China in the early 1980s, grey brick and earth walls with tiled roofs and a bare poplar, a flat cinnabar red and cream notice panel painted on one wall with no writing, a woman in a blue jacket holding a small child's hand, an old man with a bicycle leaning against the wall.

History

The One-Child Policy, 1980 to 2015

On 25 September 1980 the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party published an open letter addressed to all its members and to the members of the Communist Youth League.

Hand-painted watercolour illustration of a European Jesuit in a black cassock and a Chinese scholar in a blue-grey robe examining a bronze armillary sphere on a wooden table in a walled Chinese courtyard, with a red veranda pillar, a grey-tiled wall and a misty blue hill beyond.

History

The Jesuits at the Chinese Court

In the spring of 1601 a mechanical clock was carried into the Forbidden City at Beijing, and for the first time in the history of the Ming court the hours were announced by something other than a watchman striking a bronze bell.

Hand-painted watercolour illustration of an early Chinese bronze foundry, with foundry workers in grey and indigo robes pressing clay mould sections beside a finished green-patinated ritual tripod bearing a raised animal-mask pattern, a rust-red robed worker holding a tray of glowing molten bronze, and misty blue-green mountains beyond the open doorway.

History

The Chinese Bronze Age

No culture has left behind a stranger set of objects than the bronze ritual vessels of early China.