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[LARB China Channel] Xi Jinping: Philosopher king
In his first five-year term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping regularly cited classical Chinese philosophy in order to bol...
26 Mar 20219min
[Caixin Global] How workers got left out of China's internet boom
Internet giants in China have expanded rapidly due to the business opportunities brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the expansion has come at the cost of the health of their employees.Read the arti...
26 Mar 20218min
[Caixin Global] China's unfinished fight for mine safety
A Jan. 10 explosion at a gold mine in Qixia in eastern China’s Shandong province set off a desperate search and rescue mission for trapped miners.Read the article by Qin Jianxing, Feng Huamei and Han ...
26 Mar 20218min
[Sixth Tone] The unbearable likeness of being: The story of ‘Little Jack Ma’
Fan Xiaoqin became an instant online child star for looking like Jack Ma. Now, that fame has faded and so has the wealth it once promised. What’s left is an innocence lost and a childhood compromised....
23 Mar 202123min
[The Wire China] Jolly gene giant
Last April, as the world fell to COVID-19, one Chinese company was there to offer a helping hand: BGI. But the line between the biotech giant and Beijing is increasingly blurry.Read the article by Bre...
23 Mar 202127min
[Protocol China] China sours on facial recognition tech
State media and new regulations are going after dodgy company practices. Government still gets a free pass.Read the article by Zeyi Yang: https://www.protocol.com/china/china-facial-recognition?utm_ca...
23 Mar 202110min
[The World of Chinese] The last lumberjacks
Memories from a northeastern Chinese logging camp.Read the article by Yu Guangyi: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2021/02/the-last-lumberjacks/Narrated by Anthony Tao. See Privacy Policy at https://...
23 Mar 202132min
[Sixth Tone] The AI girlfriend seducing China's lonely men
In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions.Read the article by Zhang Wanqing: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006531/...
18 Mar 202118min
