Jul 01
From side jobs to oddball services, millions of young Chinese are turning to Alibaba’s Xianyu app to earn cash and cut corners, a marketplace running on trust, improvisation, and few rules.
A niche community of bus enthusiasts is documenting final rides, recording engine sounds, and preserving memories of a transit era disappearing under a rapid shift to EVs.
Hugo Tseng
Jun 20
Scholar
Finding the right way to render a dish like “husband and wife slices” into English isn’t easy.
Wang Peilei
Jun 16
Film researcher
Yuan Muzhi was one of the country’s top leftist filmmakers in the 1930s. Now the Shanghai International Film Festival is running a retrospective of his work.
A newly qualified Chinese seafarer finds beauty, boredom, and bust-ups on a squid trawler in the Pacific.
Once the “home of livestreaming,” the Regent International Center in Hangzhou has fallen on hard times. Investors hope a fresh tech wave will see it reign again.
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