[Times photo: Bob Croslin]
Factory workers take in a show by a pop singer in an industrial section of Shenzhen. The show is advertising women's jewelry; the company's slogan is, "It will make you rich!" The workers earn an average of $85 a month.  Go to photo gallery
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October 3, 2005
Entrepreneurial edge
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A number of small-business owners turned to China to get their products to the U.S. market.
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Entrepreneurial Edge
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A number of small-business owners turned to China to get their products to the U.S. market.
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September 26, 2005
Trail of thread
By KRIS HUNDLEY
TAL churns out clothing while hanging onto workers and global markets.
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September 20, 2005
After lunch, it's off to the local jail
By KRIS HUNDLEY
ZIGUI, CHINA - It was only after stopping our cab, escorting us to police headquarters and confiscating our passports that the local security chief said the only phrase he knew in English: "Welcome to China."
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Heavy toll in powering a nation
By KRIS HUNDLEY
China's Three Gorges Dam project destroyed whole villages and displaced about 1.9-million people. Those who speak out face beatings and jail.
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Quiet crusade for social justice finds a spokesman
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A human rights lawyer sees growing pressure within China for government accountability. He wants nothing less than to change the system.
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September 19, 2005
Putting a price on bliss: About $1,000
By KRIS HUNDLEY
Despite Chinese numerology predicting a "widow" year, business is booming for wedding portrait studios.
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Rise of a class with cash
By KRIS HUNDLEY
In Shanghai, the Communist Party isn't turning a blind eye to the trend, it's cashing in. Who else can people trust to find them a good nanny?
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A sliver of England, south of Shanghai
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A Chinese suburb gets a British theme, complete with a cathedral in the town center. Home prices average about $500,000 U.S.
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A real estate revolution
By KRIS HUNDLEY
Home ownership is a relatively new concept for many Chinese, but in the decade that it's been possible, a super-heated market has developed. The government has stepped in to tame the sector.
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September 18, 2005
Something ventured in Shenzhen
By KRIS HUNDLEY
China's capitalist revolution is about more than cheap goods and labor. A tantalizing promise of wealth has created a freewheeling spirit and eager entrepreneurs.
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The Great Wall
By KRIS HUNDLEY
How great? One of the seven medieval wonders of the world
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Expatriates answer call of love, and God, in China
By KRIS HUNDLEY
Bill Doubleday came to China for the women. Pat King came for God.
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China's lure, and its challenge
By KRIS HUNDLEY
A handful of Chinese biotech firms are trying to convince Western drug companies that scientific research can be outsourced as easily as shoemaking. Are they right?
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Bearing the scars of Shenzhen
By KRIS HUNDLEY
SHENZHEN, CHINA -- It was past 10 p.m. when the group of young workers returned from their rounds of local hospitals, where they had given advice and comfort to migrants recently injured in industrial accidents.
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A flood of change
By KRIS HUNDLEY
At an increase of 200 feet and rising, China's Yangtze River flows forever altered by the building of the massive Three Gorges dam. Among the results: relocation of about 2-million people and a new economy along the waterway.
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