All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: The general manager of Koryo Tours Simon Cockerell talks about North Korea, there's some Tuesday night music happened at Yuyintang and Mao Livehouse, take a stroll on the Bund for Wednesday, or check out an art gallery for Thursday! Read on for all the details, or head on over to our calendar for more! more ›

Insightful as always, John Garnaut, China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, speaks at the University of Southern California's US-China Institute on whether China is becoming a mafia state: more ›

Great stuff from Beijing history lecturer Yuan Tengfei (袁腾飞). [Subtitles by Chris Pereira, h/t to Danwei] more ›