FOOD

Prepared to Fail: Cafeterias and Restaurants Face Backlash for Pre-Made Meals

A school canteen scandal has Chinese consumers rethinking their growing demand for pre-prepared and ready-to-eat meals

SOCIETY

Class Struggles: Vocational Schools Still Fail to Provide Opportunities to Students

Dogged by social stigma and lack of resources, vocational high schools fail to give students the education they need to succeed in modern China

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
SPORTS

Foul Play: Why Chinese Football is Built on Shaky Ground

China's drive to reform the beautiful game is riddled with scandal, debt, and disregard for fans

TECHNOLOGY

Streaming Welfare

Farmers and village officials turn to livestreaming to sell agricultural products during Covid-19

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
SOCIETY

Building Character

“Characteristic towns” are China’s latest rural development strategy, but can every village truly be special?

FOOD, SOCIETY

Over the Moon

Moon cake, the traditional snack of the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a symbol of wealth, status, and corruption

NEWS

China-Africa Forum Reactions

Netizens comment on the third Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which wrapped up last weekend in Beijing

NEWS

Anger Over China’s Proposed Tariff Cuts

Why lower import costs are likely to have a killer effect on some age-old Chinese shopping customs

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SOCIETY

The Noughty Nineties: The Worker

Millennials now comprise the majority of China’s migrant workers—from our cover story

NEWS

Bank deposit withers away over 44 years

In most countries, a bank deposit would accumulate a fortune over 44 years. In China, not so much.