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Campus Debts
Despite stricter regulations, campus lending remains popular in China—and even reach high school students
Showers of Spring
The solar season Guyu (谷雨) marks the start of spring rain, a season of bounty and sadness in ancient Chinese literature
Of Ice and Men
The annual “winter catch” at Chagan Lake revives a millennia-old fishing tradition as a cultural spectacle
High Fliers
From military hardware to cultural heritage to children’s toy, kites have a 2,300-year history in China
Due to the Dead
A primer on the Chinese afterlife and the origin of the Tomb Sweeping Festival
Regional Harmonies
China and Southeast Asia have adapted many of each other’s pop hits
The Jade Rush
Freewheeling prices and millennia of cultural mystique fuel China’s insatiable appetite for the green stone