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A Stunted Soybean: 13 Years at My Family’s Tofu Workshop

With a childhood spent working day and night making tofu, a young man reflects on the changes his family and the society went through

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Five Mega Scandals From China’s Annual Consumer Rights Festival

From chemical rice to monstrous “water armies,” here are the most shocking consumer rights scandals revealed during China’s annual “3.15 Gala”

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How Ancient Chinese Scammers Tricked Consumers

Ancient Chinese consumers had to watch out for all manner of frauds and fake goods

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My Mother Ran a Street Stall for 13 Years, Eking Out a Living on the Margins

A young man recalls his family business in a small town in northwestern China, and the mother who was the backbone of the venture

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Post-Pandemic, Can China’s Winter Olympic Town Thrive Again?

​A year on from the Winter Olympic Games, has Zhangjiakou bounced back from the pandemic and lived up to its promise as China’s ski capital?

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The Tall Task of Solving China’s Childcare Shortage

China is encouraging couples to have more kids, but affordable childcare remains a tall order

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Kinder Cities: Can China Make Urban Life Friendly for Children?

How China is reimagining its urban landscape from the perspective of its youngest residents

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Tea Total: Is China’s New Social Media-Fueled Tea Craze More Than Just a Fad?

Once shunned by Chinese youth as old-fashioned and overly formal, tea-drinking is becoming cool again

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Tough Love: Healing the Trauma of Corporal Punishment

As China revises its law on violence against minors, debate lingers over whether physical discipline is still an acceptable parenting method

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