SOCIETY
How Quarantine Made Me Fall In Love With the Countryside
A six-month stay in a Chinese village helped a family return to their roots
Covid-19
SOCIETY
The Workers in Limbo During Guangzhou’s Covid Outbreak
Workers in Guangzhou’s urban villages face days living on the streets as their residences restrict entry
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…
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…
NEWS
One Congress, Five Years of Change in Infographics
Charting China’s changes from the last Communist Party Congress to now
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
NEWS
Sheep Game Goes Viral and Other Trending News
Sheep-raising game on WeChat goes viral, quarantine bus crash kills 27, woman on solo road trip seeks divorce, and monkeypox found in Chongqing—it’s …
NEWS
Fish Swabbed for Covid-19 and Other Trending News
Fish get tested for Covid, record heatwave causes energy shortages, man sued for breaking coworker’s ribs with hug, driver cooks noodles on steering …
TRAVEL
How Covid Left Me Stranded in Hainan
My trip to Hainan province was meant to be an island escape, but turned into another Covid-19 debacle
NEWS
Sanya Lockdown Leaves Thousands Stranded and Other Trending News
Thousands stranded in tourist hotspot, vlogger faces prison for eating endangered shark, Tangshan in the news again, netizens react to Pelosi’s Taiwa…
SOCIETY
Parks, No Recreation: The Battle to Access China’s Public Spaces
China is trying to build more public spaces, but who has the right to use them—and how—remains contested
NEWS
Job-Seekers With Covid History Face Discrimination and Other Trending News
Shanghai employers discriminate against those with Covid-19 infection history, Weibo cracks down on censorship evasion, thief caught after blood from…
