While China's award-season red carpets fill with costume changes and热搜 battles, actress Tan Songyun published a short creative essay in the overseas edition of People's Daily — and its gentle critique of image-building landed harder than any red-carpet moment.
A wave of viral Chinese essays argues that getting rich, staying calm or aging well comes down to mindset, not grind. The genre, popular on Toutiao and Zhihu, blends self-help, folk wisdom and sharp cultural observation.
A new wave of young Chinese travelers is swapping checklists and photo spots for slow, immersive stays in ordinary neighborhoods. The shift favors depth over speed, and locals over landmarks.
A viral Chinese feature traces the careers of four former CCTV presenters whose off-screen scandals ended their TV careers, one with deportation. It reflects a wider reckoning with celebrity accountability in China's entertainment world.
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