In this special feature for International Women's Day, we highlight three inspiring stories. Each of them represents the growing freedom Chinese women have to redefine success on their own terms.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

Birds are widely regarded as symbols of freedom and eternity due to their ability to soar into the skies. Their symbolism exists all over the world as part of different cultures, religions, and ...

Voice of America went on the air eight weeks after Pearl Harbor. “We bring you voices from America,” journalist William Harlan Hale said in German on Feb. 1, 1942, in ...

In the gripping ‘Let Only Red Flowers Bloom,’ reporter Emily Feng writes about people who faced consequences for failing to ...

Mukololo Chanda still recalls the glory days of Africa’s “freedom railway ... “It continues to be a symbol of the Chinese-African all-weather friendship, as many officials on both ...

China considers Tibet, which has alternated between independence and Chinese control over the centuries ... and says that Tibetan people’s aspirations for freedom cannot be denied indefinitely.

Bush has made clear that while he is going to Beijing mostly as an Olympics fan, he would talk frankly with Chinese President Hu Jintao during their private meetings. It was also known that he would ...

Each of them represents the growing freedom Chinese women have to redefine success on their own terms. Their choices, though different, share a common thread — courage, resilience, and the ...