Simone McCarthy is a graduate of Columbia School of Journalism and a student of Chinese language and culture.
Ever wonder why ordering takeout is so cheap in China? While Alibaba and Tencent jostle for dominance in the waimai market, small family-owned restaurants are...
On a top floor of Shanghai’s K11 mall, a few levels above glossy, luxury brand storefronts, a maze of tabletops display locally made jewelry, hand-knit...
Zheng Xi 郑熹 As the messages pinged in a group chat on her phone, Sofia Huang Xueqin 黄雪琴 grew more and more angry. How come...
As over half of China travels for the extra-long National Day holiday, The China Project looks at how young Chinese are finding new ways to explore and escape.
Mobile video-sharing phenomenon musical.ly was created in China, but first gained popularity in America. Now the company’s founders are crossing the Great Firewall again to reenter their home country.
As China’s latest cohort of international students prepares to start classes at universities abroad this September, The China Project takes a look at the other side — the rising numbers of international graduates returning home to navigate new lives in China.
Challenges abound for Chengdu’s dream to draw in tech startups, but the city government is sparing no efforts to make it happen.
A Q&A with Sara Liao on shanzhai fashion and “women’s digital work.”
A look at how women in Shanghai — and all over China — are grappling with an increasingly common cancer.
Earlier this month, international media critiqued China’s conflation of International Women’s Day with a shopping holiday for women, while state media lauded the contributions of female consumers to the market economy. But both narratives neglected to mention that women are making boatloads of money and shaping the new ways that Chinese people shop online.