Soccer player Li Ying becomes first high-profile Chinese athlete to come out
Li Ying, a member of the Chinese women’s national soccer team, has made history as the first high-profile Chinese athlete to come out as a lesbian.
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Kuaishou shows ByteDance that fighting overwork isn’t that hard
One of China’s biggest video apps, Kuaishou, once installed sensors in toilets to monitor how long employees took in the bathroom. Now the company has put an end to six day work weeks for tech staff, shortly after ByteDance — which owns China’s dominant short video platform — decided to continue the practice.
Abbot Wang Yuanlu of Dunhuang: Villain or…?
On June 25, 1900, a Daoist monk made one of the most startling and significant discoveries in archaeological history. But that would only be the beginning of the story for Abbot Wang Yuanlu of the Mogao Caves.
The people who work for TikTok are workaholics and they want more!
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is famous for its workaholic culture, and many of its employees don’t want it to change despite growing calls in China for better work-life balance at tech companies.
Chicken parenting is China’s helicopter parenting on steroids
Helicopter parents of America may be intense, but their counterpart in China — known as "chicken parents," named after a traditional Chinese medicine remedy involving the injection of chicken blood — can be just as over-the-top.
Tsinghua design school accused of internalized racism for accentuating Chinese models’ slanted eyes at runway show
Did graduates of a prestigious design school feed into racist stereotypes with a fashion show featuring models who all had noticeably slanted eyes, and makeup to accentuate their “Chinese eyes”? Or are Chinese internet users just oversensitive?
Zhao Benshan and the fine line between entertainment, business, and politics in China
Zhao Benshan became a comedy legend through Spring Festival Gala skits in which he played rural characters who satirized contemporary society. But with money and fame came scrutiny — the political kind.
Rejuvenated China national soccer team onto next stage of World Cup qualifying
China's hopes of qualifying for Qatar 2022 are still alive.
Shanghai art museum slammed for showing video ranking thousands of women by attractiveness
In the year 2021, a contemporary art museum in Shanghai decided that, for some inexplicable reason, it was appropriate to provide a platform for an artwork that ranked thousands of real-life young women by appearance. Predictably, the backlash was fierce.