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Despite living in Beijing, one of China’s richest cities, she lives a hand-to-mouth existence, earning money by collecting rubbish and reselling it. The 1500 yuan (US$227) a month she makes has to feed three — her husband who suffers from a mental illness and does not work, her 10-year-old granddaughter Feng Aobin and herself. Toilling […] -
A glass bridge high on a mountainside in China is made to look like it is shattering as you walk across it, but it could also really shatter. Videos of people trying to cross the bridge as it appears to crack under their feet have outraged Chinese social media users, who feel it is an […] -
Ahead of China’s important leadership conclave, the 19th National Congress, Xinjiang is on lockdown. The region, located in the northwestern reaches of the country and composed mostly of ethnic minorities, has long been the subject of suppression by Chinese authorities. In recent years, ethnic violence between Uyghurs and Han Chinese has been met with harsh […] -
Airlines in China are now being used to transport a macabre kind of cargo: human organs. In a report published on Oct. 4, Chinese state media China News Service announced that at airports around the country, China Southern Airlines has opened an express lane for transporting human organs in May 2016—and that it has already […] -
A 21-year-old Chinese woman went blind in one eye after a particularly long video game session. The woman, from the southern Guangdong Province, played “Honour of Kings” for 24 hours straight. She spent her entire Sunday, starting in the morning of Oct. 1, playing the game. In the evening she suddenly couldn’t see out of […] -
The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important traditional holiday for the Chinese, a time of longing to be with loved ones and an occasion to reflect on what one is grateful for. Going by the lunar calendar, Oct. 4 is the day of the celebration this year. For scores of Falun Gong practitioners in China, the […] -
Corrupt officials are a big headache for the Chinese Communist Party. They drain the country of money and then escape abroad with their booty. The phenomenon is so pervasive there is even a term to describe them: “naked officials,” so called because they send their wife and kids overseas while they’re alone in China amassing […]
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A parent’s worst fear is hearing that something bad has happened to their child. Even more terrifying is when the police refuse to help. In Wuhan City in central China, more than 30 young university students have gone missing, but the Chinese authorities have gone out of their way to prevent any information about their […] -
Hong Kong—Across mainland China, Oct. 1 marks the day the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over the country and established the People’s Republic of China. The regime mandates a week-long holiday meant for celebration. But in Hong Kong, 40,000 city residents took to the streets to protest the CCP’s rule, calling the occasion “a day […] -
China has devised a new way of preventing money from flowing abroad: by curbing home property sales. This past weekend, seven provincial capitals and Chongqing, a centrally-controlled municipality, banned homeowners and investors from selling their property. Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province, has banned investors from selling newly bought homes for up to five years, while […] -
In China, breakfast at the local food stall can be paid for with a smartphone: scan the nearby QR code, and the money gets automatically deducted from the account linked to the device. Chinese consumers have embraced mobile pay on a scale far exceeding that of other countries. In a 2016 survey conducted by Nielsen […] -
Even a famous director in China is not immune to the forces of political censorship. Feng Xiaogang’s new film, “Youth,” set during the tumultuous period of the Cultural Revolution, has been abruptly canceled just days prior to its scheduled premiere date, Sept. 29. On the film’s official Weibo account, China’s equivalent to Twitter, Feng wrote […] -
For months, this Chinese billionaire video-blogging from his swanky Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park has captivated the attention of Chinese at home and abroad. His livestream videos and posts on Twitter contain incendiary allegations against top officials within the current Chinese Communist leadership, including widespread corruption and adultery. Guo Wengui, a New York-based real estate […] -
One thing is certain: The persistent rumors and the eventual confirmation of a Chinese regulatory crackdown on bitcoin and others cryptocurrencies took down the collective market capitalization, from $179 billion on Sept. 9 to $100 billion on Sept. 15. The rest of the story is less clear-cut. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) only officially […] -
One of Beijing’s most popular tourist destinations, a library nestled within a natural landscape, was recently shut down by the authorities due to its collection containing pirated books. The Liyuan Library is located on the outskirts of the city in the village of Huairou. In 2014, it won a major international architecture design award for […] -
The career of an Olympic doctor—who had blazed a trail to success at an early age—came to a screeching halt when she refused to inject the top Chinese gymnasts with steroids. After almost two decades of mistreatment, she is seeking asylum in Germany and has severed all ties with the Chinese Communist Party. Xue Yinxian, […] -
A young college graduate was found dead in the northern port city of Tianjin. Police suspect the death involved foul play by a pyramid scheme gang. Such gangs have been connected to a number of suspicious deaths across China. On July 14, the body of Li Wenxing, 23, was found near a suburban highway in […] -
Having left her native China and entered the United States via a smuggling ring in 2014, Zheng Lili recalls the climax of her months-long journey, which took her around the world and cost tens of thousands of dollars. “I was scared to death, gasping for breath, I thought I would die there.” It was at […] -
China has dissolved its national boxing team amidst complaints about rigged boxing matches in the recent premier National Games, announced the State General Administration of Sport on Sept. 7. The State General Administration of Sport is China’s top sports governing body. The boxing competition that took place in Tianjin between Aug. 3 and 13 ended in […] -
LONDON/BEIJING—Britain’s Cambridge University Press has rejected a request from its Chinese state-owned importer to block online access in China to scholarly articles from the American Political Science Review. “A request was indeed made by the Chinese importer, but was not acted upon by Cambridge University Press, so no content was blocked,” a spokeswoman for CUP […] -
Residents at Beijing Normal University’s student halls can open the building’s doors with their faces. The university has been using face or voice recognition technology to verify students’ identities since mid-August. The technology was first trialed in the student dormitories in May. Facial recognition technology is becoming more common in China. It has been used […] -
A program in China is sending school bullies to jail, and sentencing them to hard labor. The courts in China are working with the schools on a pilot program for young bullies. Girls aged 15 to 17 are going through the program with the Tongzhou District People’s Court, BBC reported. A local Chinese paper said […] -
It would have been another normal Tuesday morning on Sept. 5, as parents of Xifeng No. 2 Primary School pupils in Guizhou Province sent their kids off to school. At the school gate, the parents were surprised to find a dubious truck loaded with boxes of pork. The meat—partially rotted with some pieces covered with […] -
Local fishermen hauled a huge whale shark through the streets of Xiapu county in Fujian on Monday and offered to sell it to a local restaurant, Shanghaiist reported. The fish appears to be alive in a video that can be viewed below, with its fin shaking as the truck makes its way down a busy […] -
A video showing a Chinese police officer slamming a woman holding a child to the ground has incensed social media users in the world’s most populous country. A video, taken by a bystander, shows a woman in Shanghai arguing with an officer over a parking fine. After a heated exchange, the officer suddenly slams the […] -
A 24-year-old woman was detained by police after she attempted to ship her newborn girl to an orphanage wrapped in plastic bags. The baby survived and the mother is being investigated for child abandonment. The mother, surname Luo, lives in the city of Fuzhou in southeast China, some 480 miles south of Shanghai. On Aug. […] -
A teen death at an internet addiction treatment center has sparked more criticism over the controversial institutions. An 18-year-old had just been admitted to the treatment center in Fuyang City, eastern Anhui Province, on Aug. 3. After a mere two days, members of the center’s staff informed his parents that their son had been rushed […]
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