American loneliness is rising as churches, bars, and clubs lose their pull. In Chinese cities, free and walkable parks work as daily public living rooms for ...
A retired American visitor spends a morning in a Chengdu park, where retirees sing in choirs, dance in plazas and play mahjong for small stakes. The ...
Every evening around 7:30, plazas across China fill up. No membership, no fee, no reservation — just a speaker on a trolley and forty neighbors. For ...