The “Black Cat Detective”, released 40 years ago, was a childhood fixture for many Chinese. The protagonist was a stern-faced, feline cop with a law-and-order demeanour befitting a cool communist cat.

When producer Wang Zijian was making the movie "Bel Ami," or “Beautiful Friends,” he knew it had no chance of airing in Chinese theaters. The black-and-white satire, set in a small, snowy Chinese town ...

The non-profit Internet Archive has been in the news a good bit in recent weeks, after losing a high-profile legal challenge from four major U.S. book publishers over the digital archive’s National ...