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[Caixin Global] What’s behind China’s growing problem with child depression
As cases soar among young people, patchy preventative treatment means patients don’t reach doctors until they’re already in a serious state.Read the article by Zhao Jinzhao, Fan Qiaojia, Dai Fankai an...
1 Apr 20227min
[The World of Chinese] Dancing for the dead: Stumbling across a Tujia funeral
A chance encounter with a funeral of the Tujia people showcases changing ethnic traditions as modernity comes to the Chongqing highlands.Read the article by Mads Vesterager Nielsen: https://www.thewor...
29 Mar 202216min
[Sixth Tone] ‘This game is so realistic! It feels just like working overtime’
Everyone hates China tech’s culture of overwork, but a new game argues that structural incentives tempt bosses to rely on overtime.Read the article by Wu Peiyue: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009982...
29 Mar 202210min
[Sixth Tone] A Yunnan researcher’s plan for plastic waste: Feed it to the fungi
Newly discovered fungi in Southwest China are voracious eaters of plastic and rubber. Scientists hope they can provide better ways of recycling plastics.Read the article by Li Pasha: https://www.sixth...
29 Mar 202211min
[The World of Chinese] Gone ashore: Inside the vanishing world of China’s “sea nomads”
How three generations of a family gradually gave up riding the waves off Hainan’s coast.Read the article by Qin Yue (Translated by Nathaniel J. Gan): https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/03/gone-ash...
25 Mar 202242min
[SupChina] The assassination of Song Jiaoren (and Chinese democracy)
Following the Xinhai Revolution, Song Jiaoren embodied China's hopes for a democratic future. He was destined to become the nascent republic's first prime minister — before he was murdered in Shanghai...
25 Mar 20229min
[Caixin Global] China’s Covid response calibration
As omicron variants spur China’s worst flare-ups since 2020, policymakers move to tweak the largely successful Zero-Covid strategy.Read the article by Jiang Moting, Cui Xiaotian and Han Wei: https://w...
25 Mar 202215min
[Sixth Tone] China’s Instagram wants more male users. It’s using women as bait.
Lifestyle platform Xiaohongshu used to be a rare safe space for Chinese women online. Then, the company began marketing itself to men as a place to meet “beautiful ladies.”Read the article by Zhang Wa...
25 Mar 202213min
