Gown Abroad
As marriage rates decline, a photography market is booming as young couples seek authenticity and conspicuous consumption overseas
Besides Singles Day, here are some other invented festivities that go on each year
As marriage rates decline, a photography market is booming as young couples seek authenticity and conspicuous consumption overseas
“Characteristic towns” are China’s latest rural development strategy, but can every village truly be special?
After a 13-year ban, “Crane Game” machines are the latest fad for Chinese shoppers
On the birthday of the 20th-century feminist writer Ding Ling, TWOC celebrates her unapologetic life and unconventional views on love
Two recent dramas offer new explanations to why the wife of Emperor Qianlong cut her hair—and got herself banished from court
How have divorce and unmarried cohabitation been addressed in China?
As China regulates international adoption, attitudes at home make it difficult for domestic adopters
Tabletop gamers gather weekly in bars to strategize—and “slay” each other
Despite illegality and violence, pyramid schemes are still frustrating both victims and police
China’s trash ban leads to illicit smuggling, debate on domestic recycling
Walking, reusing, stealing: Have China's penny-pinching elders gone too far?
Can China save its struggling fast-food industry?
A day in Dongjiao, the Hainan community where a single fruit is the source of everything
A forgotten Silk Road relic sheds light on early Christianity in China
