A decade ago, Kangbashi in Ordos was the world's favorite example of China's empty cities. I went back to see who lives there now, why the ...

A hand-poured specialty coffee for 35 yuan—about five US dollars—now shows up in Chinese county towns and even villages. Who is buying it, and what does ...

In Chinese cities, old buildings are sometimes lifted off their foundations and walked hundreds of meters to a new spot, brick by brick, without taking them ...

A spoonful of tofu pudding can start an argument in China. For one Guangdong woman eating a northern salty bowl for the first time in Beijing, ...

In the hills of China, villages that once lost their young people to distant cities now ship handmade furniture, dried mushrooms, and embroidery across the country. ...

In a Huizhou village, a man unwraps a genealogy his family hid inside a wall during the Cultural Revolution. These handwritten family records—some tracing back thirty ...

In basement bars and converted bookstores across Chinese cities, a generation of amateur comedians turns overtime culture, sky-high rents, and family pressure into five-minute sets. Here's ...

A short flight over a crumbling tower in the mountains north of Beijing is changing how China protects the Great Wall. Here is how drones, LiDAR, ...

China's pet economy has grown into a market worth over $40 billion, and young people are driving much of it. But for many in Gen Z, ...

China runs the largest education system on earth: about 290 million students, roughly $900 billion a year in total spending, and more university graduates than any ...