China Stories

[Caixin Global] The heated fight against facial recognition scams

China’s financial industry uses the technology tens of millions of times a day for identity verification, but criminals race ahead in finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities.Click here to read the art...

4 Loka 202211min

[The China Project] Temple excursions booming among Chinese youth

According to government data, there are currently more than 33,000 Buddhist temples in China. An increasing number of them find themselves hosting urban youth who seek an escape from the rat race.Clic...

4 Loka 20227min

[The World of Chinese] Arms up! How radio exercises live on in modern China

How a German tradition from 1803 affects the massage parlors of China today.Click here to read the article by Ginger Huang.Narrated by Sarah Kutulakos.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a...

30 Syys 20228min

[Caixin Global] The double squeeze on China’s ‘sandwich generation’

Those born under the one-child policy face the demands of rearing their own children while providing care for their aging parents.Click here to read the article by Huang Huizhao, Chen Junke and Denise...

30 Syys 202215min

[Sixth Tone] Writer, inventor, brother: A requiem for a farmer

Despite many hardships, Fan Yun always had lofty ambitions.Click here to read the article by Fan Yusu.Narrated by Cliff Larsen.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

27 Syys 20229min

[Sixth Tone] What if China misdiagnosed its rural malaise?

Led by outspoken activist-scholars, the combative “central China school of rural studies” believes it knows the source of rural society’s problems. Not everyone in the field agrees, however.Click here...

27 Syys 202210min

[The China Project] Shanghairen

A visual ode to China's biggest metropolis.Click here to read the article by Neocha.Narrated by Cliff Larsen.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar...

27 Syys 202210min

[The China Project] From battlefield glory to gruesome execution: The fall of Yuan Chonghuan

How did Yuan Chonghuan, who achieved one of China’s greatest military victories and ascended to the highest ranks of government, fall so far from favor that he ended up executed by lingchi, death by a...

23 Syys 202211min