Searching for the origins of China’s festival to the dead on the mountain where it all began more than 2,500 years ago
China’s “Buddha-like youth” are visiting temples and praying to the gods—Gen Z style.
From the first Afrobeat album to the first Afrobeat festival, the genre has been quietly making inroads in China’s music market
Memoirs of a Gen Z factory worker in a coastal town
From ankle crushing to slow slicing, ancient Chinese punishments and torture were brutal
Stories of two post-Covid homecomings to mourn loved ones and sweep the tombs on Qingming Festival
The secret to business success in China may be to bombard clients with courtesy, politeness, and rose emojis
Digital tombstones, QR code epitaphs, livestreamed rituals: This Qingming Festival, Chinese are turning to digital technologies to remember their anc…
Four ancient Chinese poems on Qingming Festival show that the day was always about more than just tomb sweeping
James Zimmerman’s new book examines the sensational stories behind the 1923 robbery of the Peking Express
Chinese youth are identifying with the struggles of the protagonist in Lu Xun’s “Kong Yiji,” as they face unemployment and limited job prospects desp…
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