Contributions from individuals with unique perspectives to share. Hear from everyone, from experts and commentators to those whose voices are often marginalized.

VOICES & OPINION

How China’s ‘Academic Bars’ Mix Alcohol and Academia

The latest attempt by Chinese to localize the pub is attracting audiences, but for how long?

Huang Yanhua

After a Big 2024, What’s Next for China’s Game Industry?

The race to make the next Black Myth: Wukong may come down to two developers.

Kong Degang

Can News Survive the Rise of AI?

A 2019 court decision helped lay the groundwork for AI news in China. But protections for media outlets are sorely needed.

Joanne Kuai

The Forgotten Scholars Who Brought Chinese Laws to the World

How do you make Confucian concepts legible to international scholars of law?

Wu Jingjian

A New Perspective on Southeast Asia’s Hmong

The anthropologist Shi Tian has spent decades trying to give the Hmong a voice on the global stage.

Cai Yineng

Remembering China’s ‘Godfather of Jazz’

Liu Yuan, who died of cancer in December, helped reintroduce jazz to the Chinese mainland.

Cai Yiwen

The Complex Inner Lives of China’s ‘Livestream Moms’

Why are women streaming themselves caring for their sick and paralyzed children?

Pei Yuxin

Is China’s Most Famous Modern Play Stuck in the Past?

The 1958 staging of Lao She’s “Teahouse” is a certified classic. Can anyone improve upon it?

Liu Qing

Will This Short Story Rewrite the History of Chinese Sci-Fi?

Published in Singapore in 1898, the anonymously written, long-forgotten “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong: An Autobiography” may be the earliest example of Chinese science fiction.

Feng Zhang

Do Sci-Fi Authors Dream of Electric Daoism?

What draws some of the world’s top sci-fi authors to the “Dao De Jing”?