In the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili on the border with Myanmar, the Jiegao jade market has rows of tables for vendors stretching as far as the eye can see. Much of the jade is from Myanmar. It ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The jade trade is rife with corruption, conflict, and disease. According to the ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. Plans to open a Chinese American restaurant have ...

An exhibition of jade artifacts from the Lingjiatan relics site in Hanshan county, East China's Anhui Province, recently opened at The Palace Museum in Beijing. More than 90 percent of the 399 items ...