China Fences In Its Nomads, and an Ancient Life Withers
For the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs looks at the consequences of the Chinese government’s...
lifestyle
Once-Prized Tibetan Mastiffs Discarded as Fad Ends
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on the bursting of a bubble in demand for Tibetan...
How Chinese View Increasing Obesity
According to a recent study, China now ranks second behind the United States as the country with...
The Rise of Alternative Education in China
With many parents and students losing faith in China’s rigorous and high-pressure education...
In Slickness and in Wealth
ChinaFile has posted a slideshow of photos by Guillaume Herbaut of wedding photography sessions, a...
Urbanites Find Refuge in China’s Countryside
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
Chinese Save ‘Defensively’ for Milestones
Tea Leaf Nation’s Liz Carter and ChinaFile present a humorous infographic by Sohu Finance...
Diabetes in China Now a “Catastrophe”
A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that the number of people...
Golf in China Growing Fast
Brook Larmer at The New York Times looks into the increasing zeal for golf in Mainland China: The People’s Republic might seem an unlikely incubator for golf prodigies. Chairman Mao, after all, banned the game in 1949 as so much...
Economic Growth Doesn’t Bring Happiness to China
Last year, the United Nations World Happiness Report listed China as the 112th happiest country out of 156. (The Ministry of Truth soon banned reporting on this indicator.) Other reports have also found that despite rising...
China Strains to Satisfy Growing Demand for Meat
For the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRI’s Mary Kay Magistad reports on the economic and political implications of China’s rising demand for meat, with China now producing and consuming half the world’s...
Changing Attitudes in China
Pew Research Center has released results of a new public opinion survey in China which shows changing attitudes toward economic inequality, corruption, the U.S., and a variety of quality of life issues from food safety to the...
Photographs Capture a Disappearing China
With rapid and profound economic and social changes underway in China, many aspects of day-to-day life are being transformed. Several artists have recently made efforts to document the current way of life for Chinese families as...
Study: China Getting Fatter, But Not Like U.S.
Much has been made of the fact that obesity is becoming much more prevalent in China as people adapt Western diets and fast food outlets become ubiquitous in the big cities. But new research shows that the obesity epidemic in...
Leading China’s Voguish Revolution
The Telegraph reports that the major Western fashion labels have their sights set on China, where the young and affluent are increasingly buying luxury brands: It is an unimaginably large and increasingly lucrative market....
China’s ‘City Jade Men’ Indulge in Mud Masks, L’Oreal Creams
Bloomberg reports on urban China’s rising class of “metrosexuals”: Daily rituals like Zhang’s have prompted L’Oreal SA, the world’s biggest cosmetics company, Nivea maker Beiersdorf AG and Japan’s Shiseido Co....
Once Banned, Dogs Reflect China’s Rise
The New York Times looks at how the rise of pet ownership in Beijing heralds the rise of a new China: Twenty years ago, there were hardly any dogs in Beijing, and the few that were here stood a chance of landing on a dinner...
China’s Other Billion: Sex and the Country
Following is the latest installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who will be sharing with us dispatches from her journey across rural China. In this post, Rachel gives a sampling of rural attitudes toward...
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