Books
03.27.17

Wish Lanterns

Alec Ash

If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of 16 and 30. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world.

Sinica Podcast
01.31.17

Talking ’Bout My Generation: Chinese Millennials

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

Alec Ash, a young British writer who lives in Beijing, has covered “left-behind” children in Chinese villages, the “...

Environment
12.13.16

Chinese Consumers Adopt Greener Lifestyle

 from chinadialogue

For the last two years, Helen Ni has hosted low-carbon technology workshops for local kids and their parents. The informal gatherings take place at her ground-floor apartment in the Shanghai suburb of Minhang, close to Jiaotong...

China's Napoleon Complex

With Deng’s political reforms in the 1980s and 1990s came increased discrimination based on appearance.

Sinica Podcast
09.10.15

China’s Millennials

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn record from San Francisco, where they interview Eric Fish, a long-time China resident, writer at Asia Society, and author of the recent book...

Photo Gallery
03.03.15

Migrant Hair

Stéphanie Borcard & Nicolas Métraux

This photo series of Chinese hairdressers was made in the spring of 2012, in the city center of Chengdu in Sichuan province. There, some 16 percent of the city’s...

China’s Mountain Hermits Seek a Highway to Heaven

His unheated hut is half way up a mountain with no electricity, and his diet consists mostly of cabbage. But Master Hou says he has found a recipe for joy. "There is no happier way for a person to live on this earth," he declared, balancing on a...