AUDIO ARTICLES
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
BOOKS
Can China’s Detective Novels Finally Make Crime Pay?
China’s long quest to produce a great crime novel
SOCIETY
Industrial Evolution: Turning Old Factories into New Cultural Parks
Can heritage protection projects give new life to China’s abandoned factories?
SPORTS
Play Like a Girl: How Women Forge New Communities Through Sport
Frisbee, rock-climbing, and other trendy pastimes are seeing growing interest from women, who make their own community in these sports
FILM
Left in the Dust: Shaking Rural Cliches in Films on Northwest China
Can films and literature from the Northwest shake their strong association with rural subjects?
HISTORY
The British Spy Who Cracked the Secret to Chinese Tea
How a 19th-century act of “corporate espionage” changed world history
HISTORY
The Blast that Nearly Destroyed Beijing
The Wanggongchang Explosion continues to mystify historians almost 400 years later
SOCIETY
After Covid, Another Kind of Isolation
Months after recovery, some former Covid-19 patients struggle with job discrimination, dating stigma, and even separate testing queues
SOCIETY
Protecting the Rice Bowl: China’s Relentless Quest for Food Security
With Covid-19 affecting domestic farming and global food supplies, can China ever reach its goal of food security?
SOCIAL CHINESE
Pretty Talks: Talk Like a Chinese Beauty Influencer
Considering a career as a beauty influencer? Talk like one first.
