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The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed? In 1996, when Peter [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed? In [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The video posted last year on Chinese social media showed more than 100 Japanese children, supposedly at an elementary school in Shanghai, gathered in their schoolyard. Chinese [...]

The video posted last year on Chinese social media showed more than 100 Japanese children, supposedly at an elementary school in Shanghai, gathered in their schoolyard. Chinese subtitles quoted two [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased. Chinese people know their [...]

The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased. Chinese people know their country's internet is [...]

Cada vez hay menos sitios web y más publicaciones censuradas, lo que aviva los temores en China sobre lo que ocurre cuando se borra la historia. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYKhdv5q08fphYVt40M Los chinos saben [...]

The experience of TikTok's owner, ByteDance, in Beijing and Washington shows how much the ground has shifted for China's entrepreneurs. One April afternoon in 2018, Zhang Yiming, the founder of [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The Netflix series showcases one of the country's most successful works of culture. Instead of demonstrating pride, social media is condemning it. The first five minutes of [...]

La serie de Netflix muestra una de las obras culturales más exitosas del país, una exportación cultural inusual. Sin embargo, las redes sociales la condenan. Los primeros cinco minutos de [...]

The Netflix series showcases one of the country's most successful works of culture. Instead of demonstrating pride, social media is condemning it. The first five minutes of the Netflix series [...]

Byline: Li Yuan China's film industry was operating under a planned economy when Wang Xiaoshuai graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1989. Only a few studios, all state-owned, were allowed [...]

China's film industry was operating under a planned economy when Wang Xiaoshuai graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1989. Only a few studios, all state-owned, were allowed to make movies. [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Once a year, the premier held a news conference, explaining the economy and giving Chinese a taste of political participation. That has come to an end. For [...]

Once a year, the premier held a news conference, explaining the economy and giving Chinese a taste of political participation. That has come to an end. For more than 30 [...]

Byline: Li Yuan China has no dissident with the kind of public profile that Aleksei A. Navalny had. The government has many critics, but they all disappear from view. After [...]

China has no dissident with the kind of public profile that Aleksei A. Navalny had. The government has many critics, but they all disappear from view. After watching ''Navalny,'' the [...]

Byline: Li Yuan On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, 50 or so Chinese people packed into a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They came for [...]

Byline: Li Yuan As their losses pile up, Chinese investors are losing confidence not only in the stock market but in the government's ability to turn the economy around. Like [...]

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, 50 or so Chinese people packed into a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They came for a seminar about [...]

As their losses pile up, Chinese investors are losing confidence not only in the stock market but in the government's ability to turn the economy around. Like many Chinese people, [...]

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music A crisis of confidence is brewing inside China, where the government is turning believers in the Chinese dream into [...]

Byline: Li Yuan People with personal ties to China, on a tour to see Taiwan's election up close, learned of the island's path to democracy - messy, violent and, ultimately, [...]

People with personal ties to China, on a tour to see Taiwan's election up close, learned of the island's path to democracy -- messy, violent and, ultimately, inspiring. At the [...]

People with personal ties to China, on a tour to see Taiwan's election up close, learned of the island's path to democracy -- messy, violent and, ultimately, inspiring. At the [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Trekking the perilous Darién Gap and seeking asylum are risks worth taking for migrants from China who have lost hope in the country's future. Gao Zhibin and [...]

A popular chef's video was attacked as a jab at Mao Zedong's dead son. But what if a recipe for egg fried rice was just a recipe for egg fried [...]

Byline: Li Yuan A popular chef's video was attacked as a jab at Mao Zedong's dead son. But what if a recipe for egg fried rice was just a recipe [...]

Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year's protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance. In November [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year's protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his [...]

Un mayor número de personas que perdieron la esperanza en el futuro de su país han optado por atravesar el peligroso tramo selvático en Sudamérica y solicitar asilo en el [...]

Trekking the perilous Darién Gap and seeking asylum are risks worth taking for migrants from China who have lost hope in the country's future. Gao Zhibin and his daughter left [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Migrant workers, who moved from China's villages to its big cities, were a secret weapon building the economy. Now many see few options. When Zhang left his [...]

Migraron de los pueblos a las metrópolis de China para mantener a sus familias y sus salarios bajos ayudaron al país a convertirse en la fábrica del mundo. Hoy, con [...]

Migrant workers, who moved from China's villages to its big cities, were a secret weapon building the economy. Now many see few options. When Zhang left his village in northeastern [...]

An outpouring on social media for Li Keqiang, the former premier who died Friday, reflected public grief for an era of greater growth and possibility. They posted videos on social [...]

China's brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to ask why. They went to the best universities in China [...]

Byline: Li Yuan China's brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to ask why. They went to the best [...]

China's brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to ask why. They went to the best universities in China [...]

Byline: Li Yuan A proposal evokes memories of 1980s China, when opening up to the world set off a debate over flared pants and men with long hair, what the [...]

A proposal evokes memories of 1980s China, when opening up to the world set off a debate over flared pants and men with long hair, what the party called ''weird [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Two years ago, as she walked through a hospital hallway in handcuffs and shackles to get tested for Covid, Sun Junli felt ashamed and defeated. At 45, [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Consumers and business owners say they feel paralyzed by despair, and their reluctance to spend and borrow is feeding what could become a dangerous cycle. When their [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The Chinese government represses public grief, withholding information and stanching displays of mourning to tell history the way it wants it told. Many innocent lives were lost [...]

Byline: Li Yuan Chefs and restaurant owners are using a multiplicity of ingredients and tastes to reflect Taiwan's roots, shaping a distinct culinary culture. Taiwan is a self-ruling island of [...]

Byline: Li Yuan The government's new 31-point guidelines meant to inspire confidence feel empty to businesspeople after a three-year clampdown and no concrete changes. In the darkest moments of the [...]

Se sabe que los empleadores chinos no te quieren después de cierta edad, lo que deja a una generación de trabajadores sintiéndose derrotada en sus mejores años. Cuando Sean Liang [...]

It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated. When Sean Liang turned 30, [...]

Ante tasas récord de desocupación, el Partido Comunista insta a la mano de obra juvenil a considerar los trabajos manuales, la migración al campo y a soportar las penurias. Gloria [...]

Byline: Li Yuan With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship. Gloria Li is [...]