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Taobao Terror: When Gamified E-Commerce Took Over My Life
How a tabby cat mini-game helped transform China’s e-commerce ecosystem...not always for the better
SOCIETY
Data Farming: How Digitalization is Changing China’s Villages
Can “digital villages” fulfill their promise to modernize the countryside through technology?
NEWS
Officials Reaffirm “Zero Covid” Amid Outbreaks and Other Trending News
Local governments’ Covid prevention measures criticized, lonely students make cardboard pets, luxury earrings put official in hot water, teacher dies…
SPORTS
Below the Surface: How Divers Navigate Bans and Travel Restrictions to Pursue their Passion
Scuba divers seek more opportunities to practice their sport in Chinese waters...safely
SOCIETY
Memoirs of a ‘Postpartum Nanny’
“We have no hope of being seen as human”: a writer recalls her mother’s struggles as a ‘yuesao,’ a nanny specializing in newborn and new mother care
NEWS
Factory Workers Flee Lockdown on Foot and Other Trending News
Factory workers walk home on foot amid alleged Covid outbreak, women’s protection law updated, dog uses facial recognition, toddler gives laptop a ba…
SOCIETY
Trick or Reincarnation: The Curious Case of Tang Jiangshan
A Hainan man who claims to be living a double life remains one of China’s greatest mysteries
BUSINESS
How Small-Town Budget Brands Conquered China’s Biggest Cities
The pandemic and a slowing economy have seen Chinese consumers flock to low-price brands, from milk tea to clothing
SOCIETY
I Was a Funeral Home Worker, Making Sales Pitches About Death
Staking out hospitals, meeting body quotas: a “body transporter” shares his memories from the competitive undertaking of death
NEWS
Woman Buys 2,000-Dollar Apartment and Other Trending News
Communist Party announces new leadership, woman buys apartment for 2,000 dollars, dad “plagiarizes” daughter’s drawings, and multiple fashion brands …
NEWS
One Congress, Five Years of Change in Infographics
Charting China’s changes from the last Communist Party Congress to now
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