FOR DECADES the ideal for the Chinese family involved two parents doting on their single, precious child. At the maternity hospital in Tianmen, a city in the central province of Hubei, it does not ...

With 3.7 million square miles of land, China is bested in size by only two countries, Russia and Canada, both of which are larger in area. One-third of China's land is mountainous, from the lofty ...