Photographer Yang Xin takes free “funeral portraits” for elderly people in remote villages, and learns about their attitude to life and death
On a seedy street in a small town, a 50-year-old woman struggles to chase her literary dreams as she makes a living by cutting hair
China’s rural land is seeing a building boom as villagers exercise their homestead rights—but is it sustainable?
A TV director traveled all around China filming traditional breakfasts, and became a morning meal convert in the process
Shaoshan, Chairman Mao’s birthplace in Hunan province, has become a top tourist site where people burn incense to the revolutionary hero while sellin…
Learn the legends, rituals, and drinking games behind China’s most famous drink
From imported luxury to detested health hazard to essential Covid lockdown supply, canned fruits have had a complicated relationship with Chinese con…
Discover all the hot pot varieties outside the Sichuan-Chongqing region
What secrets bubble beneath the surface of China’s miraculous hot springs?
A taste of opulence that supported generations of Chinese through an age of scarcity
Learn the origin of footbaths in the southern city of Changsha, and how bathhouses shed their seedy reputation to become modern entertainment complex…
“I’ve never regretted it”: How a Beijing animal shelter tried to make a difference—and what happens when they no longer can
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