As the world’s second-largest video game market,China boasts 674 million gamers,generating an impressive 302 billion yuan(42 billion US dollars)in revenue over the past year.Its homemade games are becoming increasing...
Under the sweltering summer sun in a Beijing park, a dozen young children aged 3 to 7 huddled in the shade to examine a beetle under the guidance of a private nature instructor. Over the past four decades, China has w...
What do spicy hot pot,public exercise equipment,and barbecue restaurants have in common?They have all risen to viral internet fame in China and attracted hordes of tourists to previously unknown destinations.In this i...
China is an education powerhouse. The country’s universities produced nearly 12 million graduates last year, while 18 million teachers in public schools prepared students for exams. But changes are afoot in this gian...
Livestreamers sell billions on e-commerce platforms while internet trolls lurk in the comment sections of microblogging sites.Business owners everywhere accept payment via the“super-app”WeChat while parents fret tha...
Reporting on China typically focuses on either mega-cities like Beijing and Shenzhen or rural areas.But what about the places in between?For the 100th edition of our magazine,we wanted our cover story to represent the...
China’s stunning cconomic rise over the last 40 years relied on the labor of the country’s migrant workers.Since the beginning of economic liberalization,millions havc moved from central and wcstern regions to staff...
Beginning new projects and making changes at the start of a new year may be cliche,but the start of 2023 is significant in several ways.First,for the first time since the pandemic began,people in China can travel free...
It’s often said that Chinese have an ancient connection to the land,given the country was for most of history an agrarian society.That agricultural land,though,has never been more valuable or contested than today wit...
If the pandemic has contributed anything,it’s the acceleration of data and"smart"technologies in China.Here,we grudgingly accept mandatory health code scanning as a fact of life,but most of us don’t think twice abou...