New surveys find Chinese women still struggle to achieve equality both at work and at home
Two new surveys show that Chinese feminists still have a lot to fight for.
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Qinghai by motorbike: Ghost cities, oil fields, and ‘Alien Ruins’
What's it like crossing one of the most remote parts of China via motorbike? Danish adventurer Mads Vesterager Nielsen shows us.
An artist and her gun in 1989: Xiao Lu’s accidental revolt
Four months before June 4, 1989, an unknown artist triggered the state by pulling a trigger. Critics and journalists jumped on the story for its political and social implications, but lost in the shuffle was the artist herself and the real reason — rooted in personal trauma — for her incendiary performance.
Another on-demand murder at Didi: Driver crushes passenger to death over ride-related dispute
An app-based service is under fire yet again: this time it’s Didi Chuxing, China’s biggest ride-hailing company that can’t seem to keep its passengers safe from their drivers.
Gu creates history again, triumphs at Freeski World Championships
Eileen Gu became the first freeskier to win two golds at the FIS Freeski World Championship over the weekend.
The last of New York’s ‘Chinese hand laundries’
Last summer, one of New York's last "Chinese hand laundries," operated by Robert S. Lee, closed. "Chinese hand laundry" refers to laundry businesses from a specific period, when Chinese immigrants from Taishan, Guangdong were closely associated with this line of work.
Delivery-only ‘ghost’ restaurants spring up across China, prompting concerns about dirty kitchens
App-based food delivery is urban China’s favorite new way to dine. But how clean are the kitchens of the virtual restaurants that make much of the food?
Beijing Lights: ‘Nowhere is home, yet everywhere is home’
"My whole life I will probably never spend a few dozen kuai on a restaurant meal, or get to stay in a hotel. But does that make my life incomplete? I don’t think so."
Interrogating the present with artist Cao Fei
In her first major solo show in China, a retrospective hosted by the UCCA in Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, the prominent multimedia artist entices us to consider questions of technology, identity, and progress.