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Invisible Summit: One Blind Person's Journey to 8,848 Meters

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Fangyan Friday #13: Historic Henanese

The cradle of Chinese civilization maintains a distinctive dialect

By Tina Xu (徐盈盈) May 15, 2020

Over Drawn: The Dilemmas Facing China’s Booming Online Comics

China’s wildly popular online comics struggle to reproduce the magic of the 1990s

Can One of China’s Most Famous Authors Shed His Reputation for Misogyny?

Jia Pingwa’s ‘The Sojourn Teashop,’ now with a new English translation, is a bold experiment for an author often lambasted for his characterization of women

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations Through the Ages

Mid-Autumn Festival was only made an official holiday in 2008, but people have celebrated it for centuries

Inside the Secret Files China Still Keeps on Every Worker

Every Chinese worker has a “dang’an” (personnel file), but hardly anyone ever sees inside them

Elastic Girls | Short Story

A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory

Fantastic Five | Short Story

A time-bending tale of love and life from author Li Hongwei