China Stories

[Week in China] Power struggle over coal

Will electricity outages force China to rethink its green goals?Read the article: https://www.weekinchina.com/2021/10/power-struggle-over-coal/Narrated by Sylvia Franke. See Privacy Policy at https://...

19 Okt 202116min

[SupChina] Hunan county implores local women to stay and marry as rural bachelor crisis worsens

A rural county in Hunan Province has made a plan to encourage local women to stay in the area and look for love amongst its many bachelors. But commenters are worried that the authorities could eventu...

15 Okt 20214min

[SupChina] The story of China's first atomic bomb

On October 16, 1964, "Miss Qiu" exploded atop a 102-meter-tall "dressing table" in Xinjiang. And just like that, China became a nuclear-weapon state.Read the article by James Carter: https://supchina....

15 Okt 202111min

[Sixth Tone] For 16M vocational high school students, hope is hard to come by

Roughly 40% of China’s high school-age population attends vocational school. They represent the future of the country’s workforce, so why can't they get any respect?Read the article by Wang Zijin: htt...

15 Okt 20218min

[The World of Chinese] Live dreaming

The popular video app Kuaishou offers China's rural celebrity-hopefuls a taste of fame.Read the article by Wu Hao: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2017/07/live-dreaming/Narrated by Alex Colville.See...

12 Okt 202117min

[SupChina] The forbidden dance of the hutuktu

Finding a living god on the Inner Mongolian steppes.Read the article by Mads Vesterager Nielsen: https://supchina.com/2021/10/01/the-forbidden-dance-of-the-hutuktu/Narrated by Cliff Larsen.See Privacy...

12 Okt 202116min

[Caixin Global] What a Minnesota mural of Confucius says about misinterpretation

There is a mural of Confucius in a courtroom of the Minnesota Supreme Court in the U.S. It represents a misinterpretation in the search for likeness between China and the Western world.Read the articl...

12 Okt 202110min

[Protocol China] China’s great crypto shutdown has arrived

Beijing's strictest-yet crypto ban is the real thing, and 30 companies are quitting the country.Read the article by Zeyi Yang: https://www.protocol.com/china/beijing-crypto-shutdownNarrated by Kaiser ...

12 Okt 20216min