The Young Chinese Workers Struggling to Make Social Security Contributions
With a slumping job market, young workers agonize over whether to pay their social security contributions or risk trading security now for an uncertain future
Silicon Shuffle: Four Chinese Workplaces Disrupted by AI
From getting laid off to teaching AI courses, hear how employers and staff faced the onslaught of artificial intelligence in four companies
At World’s End: My Life in China’s Antarctic Research Station
Four-time Antarctic expeditioner Cao Jianxi recalls the dangers, thrills, and lifelong bonds he developed in one of the world’s most extreme environments
Meet the Chinese College Grads Who Took Up Blue-Collar Jobs
From assembly lines to massage parlors, four young people with university degrees recount the joy and pain from taking up low-skilled labor
Fly to Weightless Island
Check out our new translated Chinese short story, by Hong Kong-based writer Cheng Jiaoyang
Surviving a Summer of Extremes
Ordinary people from Chongqing and Sichuan share how they survived the heat waves and wildfires
Gone Ashore: Inside the Vanishing World of China’s “Sea Nomads”
How three generations of a family gradually gave up riding the waves off Hainan’s coast