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Tania Branigan

Tania Branigan is a Guardian leader writer and author of Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Twitter @taniabranigan

April 2024

  • 3 Body Problem. Episode 101 of 3 Body Problem. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023

    Netflix’s 3 Body Problem is sci-fi. But beyond the alien threat lies the trauma of modern China

    Tania Branigan
    Though Liu Cixin’s revered trilogy has been westernised for TV, it dares to trace the scars of the Cultural Revolution, says Guardian foreign leader writer Tania Branigan

March 2024

  • Photograph by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

    Politics Weekly UK
    Is China a major threat to British democracy? – Politics Weekly UK

    Despite pressure from some Conservative MPs, the government stopped short of defining China as an official threat this week. How deep does Chinese interference in the UK go? John Harris speaks to the Guardian’s foreign leader writer Tania Branigan and deputy political editor, Peter Walker. As MPs break for Easter, they also discuss the state of the Conservative and Labour parties

December 2023

  • Illustration by Maria Grejc showing books in a modern living space with a Christmas tree

    2023 in Culture
    The best books to give as presents this Christmas

    Novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the paperback they would love to find in their own stocking

June 2023

  • Mass protests against a new extradition bill in Hong Kong in August 2019. Photograph: Billy HC Kwok/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising – podcast

    From 2020: Hong Kong used to be seen as cautious, pragmatic and materialistic. But protests have transformed the city. As Beijing tightens its grip, how much longer can the movement survive?

April 2023

  • Quotations from Chairman Mao written on a wall.

    Today in Focus
    Xi Jinping and the battle over China’s memory of the Cultural Revolution

    Mao’s Cultural Revolution pitted children against their parents and tore at the fabric of China’s society. It’s vital to the understanding of China today, says Red Memory author Tania Branigan

February 2023

  • Communist China - teachers from Qinghua (Tsinghua) University and Beijing University forced to do heavy manual work during the Cultural Revolution period.  They are carrying stones to reinforce a dyke, in order to prevent flooding.

    The Audio Long Read
    A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution – podcast

    It is impossible to understand China without understanding this decade of horror, and the ways in which it scarred the entire nation. So why do some of that era’s children still look back on it with fondness? By Tania Branigan

January 2023

  • University teachers from Tsinghua and Beijing working to reinforce a dyke during the cultural revolution.

    The long read
    A tragedy pushed to the shadows: the truth about China’s Cultural Revolution

  • Patients receive IV drip treatment at a hospital in China, amid the coronavirus pandemic

    Today in Focus
    China’s deadly coronavirus wave

December 2022

  • People in Shanghai protest against China's zero-Covid policy (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP)

    Full Story
    China’s zero-Covid protests

    China has been rocked by an outpouring of communal anger at the government’s restrictive zero-Covid lockdown policies. Could the protests develop into something more substantial?

November 2022

  • People in Shanghai protest against China's zero-Covid policy (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP)

    Today in Focus
    How far could China’s ‘zero Covid’ protests go?

  • Illustration by R Fresson

    It’s too easy for the west to see North Korea as a WTF curiosity. We need to do better

    Tania Branigan

March 2022

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China

    Full Story
    Can China broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine?

  • Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Beijing on 4 February.

    Today in Focus
    Can China broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine?

November 2021

  • Peng Shuai serving the ball during a practice session. (Photograph: William West/AFP via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    The disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai

    The Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai vanished after making an allegation of sexual assault against a senior political figure. Her reappearance has raised more questions than answers

August 2020

  • Exiled Tibetan nuns and monks participate in a 24-hour hunger strike for victims of a Chinese crackdown in Ngaba, east Tibet, in 2011.

    Observer book of the week
    Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick review – voices from a forbidden culture

    A detailed, vivid – and rare – portrait of the Tibetans struggling as their way of life is eroded by Beijing

July 2020

  • The Chinese president Xi Jinping raises a toast with Queen Elizabeth II

    Today in Focus
    Is the UK's ‘golden era’ of relations with China now over?

    China and the UK have clashed in recent months over a draconian new security law in Hong Kong and the Chinese tech company Huawei. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan examines whether a much promoted ‘golden era’ between the two countries is now at an end

June 2020

  • Unrest In Hong Kong During Anti-Extradition Protests

    The Audio Long Read
    How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising – podcast

  • Mass protests against a new extradition bill in Hong Kong in August 2019.

    The long read
    How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising

September 2019

  • Anti-government protesters in Hong Kongcall on the British government to declare the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1997 invalid.

    Hong Kong protests: calls grow to give citizens right to live and work in UK

  • Police detain a protester on Saturday

    How far will China go to stamp out Hong Kong protests?

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