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Latest news, features and opinion on all aspects of society in China, including crime, education, health, culture, technology and tourism, and the impact of the one-child policy, an ageing population and mass internal migration on the country and its people.
Meeting of Communist Party elite in July could be a watershed moment as its success may determine whether China earns the keys to the club of rich nations.
Digging through layers of Western historical and scholarly assumptions, a new book by a young philosopher has resurrected a forgotten Chinese cosmopolitanism that may yet guide the country’s future.
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During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.
- Elderly man said he would give caregiver his property when he died
- Demolition project results in carer getting five expensive properties
Numerous stressors are causing China’s middle class to seek professional help, leading to rapid growth in the mental health industry – but will that be enough to soothe their nerves?
In 2018, hip hop was censored in China. Today, rappers are looking forward to a coming golden age for the music genre – as long as songs do not involve swear words and other content deemed unacceptable.
A husband in China, who suffered a cardiac arrest and has been barely conscious for many years, has now recovered thanks to his wife’s love and devotion.
An ancient tradition in China by which future brides are adopted by families with a son at a very young age and raised to be a wife still exists today, the Post explains why.
A new social category has emerged in China which denotes young individuals who adopt the path of least resistance in life as “light people”.
More and more people in China are ditching their love of good-looking, successful movie characters for losers in an attempt to better understand their own existence.
A man in China who was under pressure from his girlfriend’s parents to buy her a flat filled a suitcase with bank training coupons, which she took to the police thinking he had been conned.
An advertisement for a tiny flat in Shanghai that featured a bed behind a toilet bowl went viral because it highlighted the city’s expensive real estate prices.
Cause of landslide not known but engineer says ‘poor drainage after prolonged rainfall’ may have caused section of highway to collapse early on Wednesday.
A growing ‘she-conomy’ in China is leading to the working-age female population playing a leading role in personal spending and family purchases amid Beijing’s shift away from an investment-led growth model.
A woman has been detained in China after she flew into a rage and attacked the vehicle of another driver, threatening to kill her.
The idea of solar terms, such as “guyu” – grain rain – dates back to the Shang dynasty 3,600 years ago and was created by inhabitants near the Yellow River to optimise agricultural production.
Predictions China would have already joined the group of high-income nations have yet to bear fruit. Is it still possible to break through the middle-income ceiling – and is it still an important benchmark?
Young adults in China are increasingly seeking moments of control over their lives by staging small acts of resistance they call “emotional theft”.
After a stretch of trials in select Chinese cities, there is rising urgency to rapidly expand use of the underperforming retirement accounts as demographic challenges mount.
A Chinese couple in their 80s who were once university sweethearts, but parted decades ago, have fallen in love all over again and celebrated a joyful wedding ceremony.
Ministry of Education to launch thorough investigation of all primary and secondary schools to detect risks of ‘student bullying’, with upgraded monitoringing of psychological well-being also in the works.
A woman in China who was upset after a drunken argument with her family, stormed out with her pet dog in tow, which later lead police to where she was attempting suicide.
A belief in divine intervention is as old as China itself, here, the Post explains some of the supernatural rituals still practised today.
A woman who had a relationship with a married man who died, used her frozen eggs fertilised by his sperm to give birth to a son so she could make an inheritance claim.
Young adults in mainland China are increasingly rejecting traditional views of romance in favour of prioritising their own feelings in relationships – or dreaming about love instead of pursuing it.
A kind Rolls Royce salesman in China allowed a man of modest means to sit in his dream car and told him he one day would own one if he worked hard.
A disabled woman in China who uses her hands to propel her along after her legs were damaged by a childhood illness has hit back at vicious online abuse saying that she is unfit to be a mother.
