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I was walking home with groceries when a 13-year-old in a school tracksuit asked for a photo. Ninety seconds later, eleven students and ten phones had ...
A 27-second clip of an ordinary Chinese school lunch went viral and split the comment section in two. Korean students shrugged. Everyone else paused the video. ...
A slow afternoon at Heming Teahouse in Chengdu's People's Park reveals what a real 'third place' looks like in China — where a cup of tea ...
A product manager closes her laptop at 9:58 p.m. on the 24th floor in Beijing. In the same 24 hours, 2,400 kilometers southwest, a 63-year-old farmer ...
A decade ago, “Made in China” often meant copies. Today a new generation of Chinese industrial designers is exporting original ideas—from Xiaomi’s electric rice cookers to ...
Yuying grew up in a Dai bamboo house under the tropical sun of Xishuangbanna. Today, she streams from a night market stall in Kunming, showing thousands ...
In one ordinary day with Liu Xin, a 26-year-old PhD candidate in chemical biology, we see what it is actually like for China's post-90s generation in ...
Li Na left a Henan village for a Shenzhen assembly line at 19. Two years later, she quit to retake China's college entrance exam—and won a ...