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A guide to the tricky sound that defines Beijing

By Jessily Crispyn September 20, 2019

Renowned Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan discusses his book “AI 2041,” humanity’s AI future, and how he gets published overseas

China’s wildly popular online comics struggle to reproduce the magic of the 1990s

Mid-Autumn Festival was only made an official holiday in 2008, but people have celebrated it for centuries

Every Chinese worker has a “dang’an” (personnel file), but hardly anyone ever sees inside them

Author Tang Fei spins a yarn about alien sheep and intergalactic ties that bind

A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory