A pleated skirt, a Tuesday commute and a decade of small design fixes: how hanfu moved out of photo studios and fan meetups and into ordinary ...

A day in the life of a high school senior in China: waking before dawn, racing to the library, and grinding through evening cram schools. Follow ...

Two drinks — a humble carton of soy milk and a stubbornly old-fashioned coconut juice — are how a generation of Chinese people remember growing up. ...

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 late-night barbecue stalls and rented rooms, many Chinese men in their thirties and forties have stopped treating marriage as a life goal. Their silence says ...

Face and guanxi are usually explained to foreigners as feudal leftovers or polite corruption. In everyday China they work more like a trust system — one ...

By 2027 China's shoppers will be far more segmented than the 'rising middle class' of the past. Generation Z's rational, experience-led spending, the maturing silver economy, ...

On a Saturday afternoon in Beijing, a board game cafe buzzes with laughter and strategy. For China's Gen Z, these spaces offer something increasingly rare: real ...

Chinese Gen Z are mixing hangovers with health routines. Meet the 'punk health' trend where jittery night owls guzzle beer with goji berries and eat spicy ...

Forget swiping left or right. Gen Z in China is falling in love through voice-first apps like Soul and TT Voice, where anonymity and tone create ...