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A proposal evokes memories of 1980s China, when opening up to the world set off a debate over flared pants and men with long hair,...

Sun Junli is one of many small-business owners, the backbone of China’s economy, who lost everything to a change in government policy.

Consumers and business owners say they feel paralyzed by despair, and their reluctance to spend and borrow is feeding what could become a dangerous cycle.

The Chinese government represses public grief, withholding information and stanching displays of mourning to tell history the way it wants it told.

Chefs and restaurant owners are using a multiplicity of ingredients and tastes to reflect Taiwan’s roots, shaping a distinct culinary culture.

The government’s new 31-point guidelines meant to inspire confidence feel empty to businesspeople after a three-year clampdown and no concrete changes.

It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.

With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship.

Xi Jinping says he has defeated poverty, but discussion of economic struggle is taboo, scrubbed from the internet and banished from the news.

China has long pursued growth by public spending, even after the payoff has faded. Cities stuck with the bill are still spending — and cutting...