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NEWS

Netizens React to Ukraine Conflict and Other Trending News

Netizens debate Russia-Ukraine conflict, ByteDance employee dies after overtime work, Covid-19 outbreak connected to Wuhan, Beijing to fund fertility…

The Editors

Feb. 28, 2022

TV

TV Show Highlights the Lives of Professional Hostesses

A popular thriller set in 1980s Taiwan humanizes the women behind a difficult and stigmatized profession

Yang Tingting (杨婷婷)

Feb. 11, 2022

SOCIETY

No Retirement Before Death: The Story of an Aging Migrant Worker

What’s it like battling poverty and being unable to retire as a migrant worker in China today?

Story FM

Nov. 5, 2021

SOCIETY

I Sacrificed 16 Years to the Mines

Miner-poet Chen Nianxi tells the harrowing story of his years working as a blaster underground

Story FM

Oct. 23, 2021

LIFE

My Mother Was a Sex Worker

A young woman reminisces about growing up and learning about love, life, and family in the red-light district

Story FM

Sept. 2, 2021

LIFE

The Life of a Millennial Factory Worker

Pyramid Schemes, Menial Work, Debt—Over 40 years on from China's reform and opening, one young worker describes life in the country's factories today

Zhang Congzhi (张从志)

July 22, 2021

EDUCATION

Student’s Suicide Exposes Abusive Factory Internships

Long hours, low pay, and intimidation a regular feature of vocational work study programs

The Editors

July 14, 2021

EDUCATION

Masters of None

MBA programs offer the most expensive education in the country—but are they little more than a status symbol?

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

May 24, 2021

SOCIAL CHINESE

Performance Anxiety

Get through the ordeal of work evaluations with this handy language lesson

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Dec. 25, 2018

EDUCATION

Tech Thursday: Silicon Rush

With a rising tech sector and poor job prospects in their own fields, humanities grads are looking to join internet companies

Eduardo Baptista

Dec. 20, 2018

MODERN HISTORY

Chinese Idol

In Maoist China, a model worker discovers the price of fame

Byron R. Hauck & Chen Shaofeng

Oct. 1, 2018

LIFE

High Standards

Too short to teach? TWOC looks at discrimination in the job market, from hometowns to star signs

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧) & Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Aug. 8, 2018

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