Five years ago, a powerful government body set up a new organization and tasked it with bringing an end to pushy phone notifications. Why didn’t it work? | Continue reading
Musician Philip Hsu has amassed a huge collection of mixtapes recorded by ordinary Shanghainese during the late 20th century. They offer a unique window into an era of dizzying change. | Continue reading
The Chinese sci-fi label may be good marketing, but it limits a genre that should be limitless. | Continue reading
If you’re single, shorter than the typical bride, and enjoy frequent travel, there’s a growth industry looking to hire. | Continue reading
From a salt substitute in China’s impoverished southwest to a fixture on tables nationwide, chili peppers have come a long way over the past 400 years. | Continue reading
The popular e-reader seemed poised to dominate the Chinese market, but mounting competition and a decade of questionable business decisions ultimately spelled its doom. | Continue reading
A Chinese woman created over 200 fictional articles on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words of imagined history that went unnoticed for more than 10 years. | Continue reading
Unable to unfreeze deposits, Zhengzhou freezes depositors with red health codes. | Continue reading
During the early 20th century, thousands of Russian refugees fleeing war and revolution crossed the freezing Amur River into northeast China. Today, the community is still trying to reconcile its identity — and process its collective trauma. | Continue reading
Everyone hates China tech’s culture of overwork, but a new game argues that structural incentives tempt bosses to rely on overtime. | Continue reading
Many players said domestic versions were trickier and more difficult than the original English word game. | Continue reading
Until it was canceled, “X-Change” let rural and urban students switch lives for a month. China watched the drama, and the divide, unfold. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to an arsenal of monitoring and surveillance technologies in China and around the world. But no state of emergency lasts forever. | Continue reading
The popular short-video app and its Western cousin are under increasing scrutiny for their impact on teenagers. | Continue reading
Chinese women are fed up with dating self-absorbed men. Now, “butler cafés” are offering them more attentive male company — for a fee. | Continue reading
Property prices in areas with top academic institutes in Heze are selling for more than the city’s average real estate. | Continue reading
The country’s extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.’ | Continue reading
The Chinese tech company will use its “Midnight Patrol” system to keep tabs on minors’ screen time as it continues to combat gaming addiction among younger players. | Continue reading
The Chinese tech company will use its “Midnight Patrol” system to keep tabs on minors’ screen time as it continues to combat gaming addiction among younger players. | Continue reading
Directors Lhapal Gya and Pema Tseden discuss the challenges of telling Tibetan stories. | Continue reading
The “Why try hard when you can just skate by?” mentality embraced by some young people has not been enthusiastically received in official circles. | Continue reading
A Tsinghua University professor said his new student may reach the cognitive level of a 12-year-old in a year’s time. | Continue reading
The “Why try hard when you can just skate by?” mentality embraced by some young people has not been enthusiastically received in official circles. | Continue reading
The “Why try hard when you can just skate by?” mentality embraced by some young people has not been enthusiastically received in official circles. | Continue reading
The country’s extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.’ | Continue reading
Film and TV piracy are under increasing pressure in China. The void they’re leaving behind will be hard to fill. | Continue reading
A leaked memo offers do’s and don’ts for what ICBC considers to be 10 common scenarios between male and female co-workers. | Continue reading
Fed up with the grind of urban life, young Chinese are starting over in the countryside, where they aim to build a new society without “privilege or hierarchy.” | Continue reading
In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions. | Continue reading
In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions. | Continue reading
In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions. | Continue reading
In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions. | Continue reading
For years, cosmologist Zhang Tongjie has been pushing for China to enter the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Now, he’s finally getting his chance to make history. | Continue reading
For years, cosmologist Zhang Tongjie has been pushing for China to enter the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Now, he’s finally getting his chance to make history. | Continue reading
Amid lingering fears of COVID-19, a “robot restaurant complex” has opened in Foshan’s famed Shunde District, serving Chinese fare, hot pot, and fast food to up to 600 patrons. | Continue reading
Weeks after the city eased its virus-control policies, thousands of businesses remain shuttered. Many may never restart production. | Continue reading
A doctor reflects on nearly two months spent treating some of China’s most severe COVID-19 cases. | Continue reading
A doctor reflects on nearly two months spent treating some of China’s most severe COVID-19 cases. | Continue reading
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners say an ancient remedy has proven highly effective as a treatment for COVID-19-induced pneumonia. But some patients remain wary. | Continue reading
Since February, Wuhan authorities have sought to quarantine COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in over a dozen makeshift clinics. How does the system work? | Continue reading
For an industry that relies heavily on the physical presence of customers, creativity and shared solutions may be the keys to staying afloat. | Continue reading
One company says its system can detect viral pneumonia with 99% accuracy, but experts are skeptical of a similar product from Alibaba that claims to diagnose COVID-19 specifically with 96% accuracy. | Continue reading
Wuhan officials stayed silent for weeks as millions traveled through the epicenter of the outbreak. By the time the alarm was raised, it was too late. | Continue reading
A Hubei resident recounts his wife’s final days, and his battle to save her. | Continue reading
Photos from the frontline of China’s struggle to contain the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, selected by Sixth Tone’s visual editors. | Continue reading
Coder Disciplined for Ripping Off Python, Calling It ‘Mulan’ | Continue reading
Some rural villages claim to be the last bastions of the country’s socialist past — but not all residents are as happy or equal as they’d like to be. | Continue reading
The 63-year-old man, a convicted human trafficker, had been living in the wilderness of Yunnan since his escape from prison in 2002. | Continue reading