BOOKS
Songs from the Past | Book Review
Jia Pingwa’s latest translated novel tells an alternative history of China through the music of mourning
ENTERTAINMENT
Building Utopia Via Reality TV
New TV show '50km Taohuawu' tasks celebrities with constructing an ideal community—spoiler alert, they fail
TRAVEL
How Hangzhou Helped Jack Ma Build a Digital Empire
Hangzhou has birthed some of China's biggest tech companies
FILM
The Chinese Who Survived the Titanic
'The Six,' a new documentary executive-produced by James Cameron, reveals the hidden stories of six Chinese survivors aboard the Titanic
NEWS
Why are More Young Chinese Writing Wills?
Young Chinese are breaking cultural taboos to make end-of-life decisions
ANCIENT HISTORY
China's Long History of Eating Raw Fish
Records show Chinese were eating sliced raw fish over 2,000 years ago
STREET TALK
Stop Trying to Make 'Lying Flat' Happen!
Chinese millennials' latest "rebellious" buzzword is actually ancient (in internet terms)
TRAVEL
2021: A Mars Camp Odyssey
As China’s space program sets its sights on the Red Planet, a barren desert in Qinghai is becoming an oasis for simulated space travel
NEWS
Viral Week: The world's largest exam begins and other trending news
Gaokao begins, tornadoes rip through Heilongjiang, rare monkey visits villagers in Shaanxi, dog receives ideological education—it's Viral Week
SOCIETY
Connecting would-be Chinese parents with American surrogates
An insider of the American surrogacy industry shares stories about practice banned in China
BOOKS
Lust, Revolution
In Yan Lianke's "Hard Like Water," eroticism and class conflict overlap within the Maoist vanguard of the Cultural Revolution
BOOKS
Chinese Sci-Fi Inspired by Mars
As China's Mars mission sends images and data back to Earth, we look at Chinese sci-fi stories inspired by the Red Planet
