German banks say asking prices out of step with reality

Fintan O'Toole visits the cell where Wilde was imprisoned, and finds it haunted by the ghosts of more anonymous victims

Prominent human rights lawyer Xia Lin sentenced in Beijing on fraud charges

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, reopened after a $305 million expansion, is now the biggest gallery of its kind in the US and has been transformed into a suitably blue-chip space

A trip along Australia’s Bellarine Peninsula turned out to be an amazing holiday

Jia Jia disappeared after publication of open letter calling for President Xi Jinping to quit

Dahlin had been detained on subversion charges and made confession on state TV

Chinese artist had accused the toymaker of censorship after it refused bulk order

Diplomats also jostled as they try to gain entry to the three-hour trial in Beijing

Police block diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the Beijing court

Attorney who has represented dissidents faces eight years for ‘provoking trouble’

Max Baucus urges Beijing to see rights lawyers as partners, not enemies

Dissident artist posts images of suspected bugs on Instagram after returning to China

Believe all the hype, the German capital is a hipster idyll – but in a good way, writes Charly Wilder

Beijing leadership in denial about scale of problems the country is facing, warns artist

Dissident Chinese artist initially refused six-month stay over ‘criminal conviction’

Dissident artist told he failed to declare a ‘criminal conviction’ in visa application

Surprise move comes over four years after Beijing authorities confiscated document

The Irish-born artist doesn’t do creative block. Nor, as Beijing hosts a retrospective of his work, does he have time for westerners who ‘keep banging on about Ai Weiwei’

Compared with China’s other megacities, Beijing is a traditionalist at heart

China is giving contradictory signals, with legal reforms accompanied by crackdowns

It’s not an easy time to emerge from art college. But this year’s graduate exhibitions are full of work by students who deserve further exposure

The multicultural, diverse city never runs out of places to explore

Artist (51) arrested after what management suspect was a ‘premeditated act’

Non-Chinese journalists get to observe trial at one remove

Five directors have been nominated for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties film award. Here they discuss their work

Metal sub-genres span the world with Iran and China the big growth markets

The story of one of the many families destroyed by the Cultural Revolution