TECHNOLOGY
Digital Dilemma: Big Data Brings Big Privacy Problems to China
Can people secure their data and privacy in the digital age?
AUDIO ARTICLES
SOCIETY
The Tall Task of Solving China’s Childcare Shortage
China is encouraging couples to have more kids, but affordable childcare remains a tall order
POETRY
Another Kind of Wheat | Poetry
A fresh poetry translation from Cang Bai on the humble wheat crop
ARTS
The Young Fiber Artists Tying Themselves in Knots
How an artist couple tugs at the loose threads of society—by working with their own hair
FILM
Can ‘Hero’ Save the Pandemic Film Genre in China?
A film from late 2022 offers something different from the maudlin sentiment of mainstream Chinese films about the human toll of Covid-19
CHINESE CHARACTERS
On the Character: 数
Learn about this character for numbers, counting, and much more
BUSINESS
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
LIFE
Transforming China’s Search-and-Rescue Sector, One Dog at a Time
Follow a father-son duo who trained some of China’s first internationally certified search-and-rescue dogs, and dream of having a dog for every city
SOCIAL CHINESE
Talk Your Way Through a Chinese Wedding
Celebration of love or social obligation? Learn the language of Chinese weddings, from invitations to the ceremony itself
LIFE
Fabric of Life: The Final Days of Hong Kong’s Famous Pang Jai Market
Catch a last glimpse of Kowloon’s Pang Jai fabric market, once a thriving center of East Asia’s textile industry, before it makes way for new constru…
ARTS
Outside Looking In
As “outsider art” gains attention in international exhibitions, artists and art-lovers without formal training from China see new opportunities for s…
