Young Adults in China Are Leaning Into Living Alone

From embracing an “Are you dead yet?” app to rewriting Lunar New Year customs, here’s how a rising generation of young adults ...

Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country ...

Analysis: China's birth-rate struggles underscore its millennia-long effort to manage 'the masses'

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...

A viral question for young Chinese people living alone: 'Are you dead?'

The app "Are you dead?" has gone viral as a digital “check-in” aimed mainly at the growing number of young people living ...

23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century

The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but ...

An app’s blunt life check adds another layer to the loneliness crisis in China

BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app ...
The Diplomat

China’s ‘Low-Human-Rights’ Advantage

Qin Hui, professor emeritus of history and economics at Tsinghua University and a pre-eminent Chinese public intellectual, who now lives and writes abroad, in April of this year published a book on ...
The Economist

What’s a good man worth in China’s marriage market?

They said the suitor would be worth many millions of yuan or suitable for a hospital director’s daughter. Once the truth came ...
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People in China kept leopard cats as pets for 3,500 years, before domestic cats arrived via the Silk Road

No one wants to live in a world without cats, but for a period of about 600 years, this was the sad reality for the people of ancient China – until the Silk Road brought them their first domestic ...