ANCIENT HISTORY
Making the Ming Great Again
A now-deleted Twitter account offered humorous historical lessons on the Ming dynasty’s last emperor
STREET TALK
On Humanity
Why young Chinese call themselves “laborers,” “balance payers,” and “tool people”
BOOKS
Good Romance: Chinese Novels About Love
Romantic literature that influenced several generations
ANCIENT HISTORY
The Ox in Myth and History
From helping humanity grow food to becoming good luck charms for flood control, stories about cattle are as old as Chinese civilization itself
SOCIETY
Stories from China’s Spring Migration, Part 2
A boat trip gone awry and kindness from strangers: more reminisces from China’s busiest travel season
TRAVEL
Stories from China’s Spring Migration
Memories of homecoming and misadventure during China’s busiest travel season
NEWS
Viral Week Ep. 282
Tiger comes for dinner, cherries with Covid, bad poetry slammed, journalist reveals domestic abuse—it’s Viral Week
GALLERY
Gallery: AI Love You
Hyundai Motorstudio’s “AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence,” explores how technology changes loneliness, lust, and love
FILM
Master’s Return
Zhang Yimou writes “scar literature” about cinema in One Second, a film set in the Cultural Revolution
