Under the blazing July sun, Zhang, a high school teacher from northern China, stood outside the Digital Exhibition Center of the Mogao Grottoes, a modern building designed to resemble the surrounding ...

Photographer He Xu first passed through the China-Nepal border at Gyirong Port in 2010. He remembers that it was just a row of rustic, clay-colored bungalows. Over the past 16 years, he has revisited ...

For the better part of two years, Scaramouche was Li’s confidant, her late-night companion, and the voice that distracted her from her insecurities. He was also, by any technical definition, just ...

A growing number of Chinese universities are allowing student pets both on campus and in university dormitories, drawing online support and sparking sharp debate over the safety, equity, and cost of ...

“Every time fishermen head out to sea, they have to face the uncertainty of the ocean. When a storm hits — you can only head back to port.” Zhuge Yiyang, an essayist and podcaster better known online ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on how AI is reshaping China’s ultrashort-drama industry. Read part 1. JIANGSU, East China — Chen Hao’s old desktop still has more than 10 ...

China’s signature local specialty Lanzhou lamian, or Lanzhou pulled noodles — named after the capital city of the northwestern Gansu province — are undergoing a rebranding. At many noodle shops across ...

China’s ultrashort-drama boom built a sprawling live-action industry of actors, directors, crews, and filming bases. Now, as AI drives down production costs, shoots are disappearing and companies are ...

Two gray-green production lines glow beneath harsh white lights, their conveyor belts moving ceaselessly like mechanical rivers. Clanging metal, the rip of packing tape, and the dull thud of cardboard ...

Chinese social media influencer Zhuge Yiyang, also known by her online alias Zhong Shu, has been accused of plagiarizing content across multiple podcast episodes and a Chinese article. The allegations ...

When Wang Yijun walked out of the gaokao examination room on June 8, she immediately started thinking about what she’d do that summer. After three years of putting aside her hobbies and personal ...