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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.
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.
Despite the end of visa requirements for some countries, some foreign tourists said that even when they came prepared – installing payment and messaging tools popular on the mainland or using VPNs – they still could not pay or go online.
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.
An elderly man in China who recently died left behind a home in which his thoughts and feelings were recorded as neatly written inscriptions on the walls and furniture.
A 30-something woman in China decided she needed time out from the stresses of everyday family life, so she bought herself a little place to do her own thing undisturbed.
A fuming woman farmer in rural China went berserk with a brick after a man drove over her carefully planted roadside crops, smashing up his expensive car.
A student in her first year at a university in China became so worryingly besotted with her new boyfriend that doctors diagnosed her behaviour as mental illness.
A mother in China was so worried about her daughter-in-law after she had painful childbirth surgery that she took unconventional steps to prevent further discomfort, in the form of some heavy industrial lifting gear.
The father of a teenage boy in China, who was given cash to donate blood plasma so many times it cost him his life, is demanding accountability from the company that paid him.
China’s coming May Day holiday already has the makings of a major tourism rush, with early bookings exceeding pre-pandemic levels and the travel boom likely to fuel a much-desired round of consumption.
A woman in China has gone viral because of her conventional good looks and her decision to work as a pig farmer.