A Chinese psychologist's blunt advice to wives — stop policing who your husband sleeps with, as long as he keeps paying for the household — has gone viral. It taps a wider boom in Chinese essays about marriage, self-worth and emotional exhaustion.
A Chinese worker's effort to find a 45-year-old friend a factory security job becomes a viral story about middle-aged men shut out of work. The friend rejects every opening — night shifts, low pay, training — as a friend watches the options shrink.
In a new interview, director Gu You discusses his film 'First Taste of Loneliness,' arguing that being alone is not always a burden but can be a doorway to clarity. The film opens with a slow pan along the misty Fuchun River.
Yu Donglai, the founder of the Pang Dong Lai supermarket chain, has put 20 million yuan each into two research groups — one on love, one on children's education — aiming to find practical recipes for happier family life within three to five years.
Cambodia's Sihanoukville, once a backpacker paradise, is now known for casinos, drugs and street-level vice. A Chinese travel account asks how a resort town rotted from the inside, and what its casino licensing boom left behind.
A growing number of workers around Hangzhou ride high-speed trains to jobs in Shanghai, spending over 3,000 yuan a month on tickets. They say living outside the big city beats a cramped, expensive flat downtown.
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