Every morning in China, parks become a battleground of quiet tai chi and thumping square dance. Meet the two tribes competing for green space—and somehow sharing ...

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, millions of Chinese retirees gather in public squares to dance to booming music. Is square dancing just a noisy nuisance, or a vital social ...

At 68, Wang Guifang spent 30 years at a Nanjing textile factory. Now she starts each day at a community ping-pong table, where she has found ...

In Chinese public parks, a group of retirees known as "Lens Uncles" spend their days waiting for birds, wielding camera lenses that cost more than most ...