‘I’m only suitable for being a worker’: life on the checkout of a Beijing supermarket
Many Chinese workplaces are organised in units, an echo of an earlier era of communism
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Beijing eyes another angle to sci-fi and gaming success stories
Record-breaking launch of Black Myth: Wukong creates potential for China on global stage
Beijing’s move to get more people married receives mixed reaction
Many welcome an easing of marriage rules in China but warn that new divorce rules could trap people in unhappy marriages for longer than they want
Chinese comedy about ‘manipulation’ of child taps into wider sociological issues
Zhua Wa Wa or Successor has echoes of The Truman Show and Succession but it reflects very specifically Chinese concerns about education, parenting and getting the best for your offspring
Ireland’s mild approach could help peace prevail as tensions rise between US/EU and China
Some advocates of the democracy-against-autocracy paradigm are gripped by the same level of moral certainty that drove the global war on terror
‘You’ll cry next time’: a night to remember at the Chinese opera
Beijing Letter: A moving performance at the city’s 300-year-old wooden theatre
Meet the Irish man who is China’s top whiskey influencer
A 36-year-old from Downpatrick, Co Down, has become China’s top whiskey influencer
China’s foreign minister criticises Washington and EU while lauding Sino-Russia relations
Annual legislative meeting in Tiananmen Square includes a lengthy press conference to lay out Communist Party’s global agenda
After a fashion: Young Chinese people turning to homegrown designs
Beijing Letter: Zandra Rhodes attends Beijing Design Week as ecommerce and digital marketing help smaller designers sell their products
Fine lines and facelift pitfalls in the hot pursuit of beauty
On hottest day in 60 years, thoughts turn to Dragon Boats and the pursuit of youth
Moments of glad grace: China checks out Irish artists inspired by WB Yeats
More than 100 artists have contributed small paintings to an exhibition that is touring a country where the poet exerted much influence
China sees drop in foreign tourists as hospitality industry faces several dilemmas
Beijing Letter: Foreign visitors complain about being unable to use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which are blocked in China
The Peking Express and the bandits who stole a train
Beijing Letter: James Zimmerman’s book tells the story of an extraordinary month-long hostage drama which began 100 years ago in a very different China
Childhood and adulthood are difficult for people of the One Child Policy
Beijing Letter: Many of these children are now in their 40s and living abroad but are the only people who can look after their parents
An old story throws light on the plight of millions of Chinese graduate
Beijing Letter: A 1919 short story Kong Yiji is the most talked about literary work in China as frustrated graduates identify bitterly with the title character
For many gay men in China, family pressure is the biggest source of anxiety
It’s not easy sustaining a long-term relationship without upsetting ageing, increasingly dependent parents
Special air of excitement as outcast Russian conductor comes to China
Beijing Letter: Valery Gergiev, banned in the West, gave four sold-out performances this week
Denis Staunton in China: The flowers did not last long, the mood is changing, and an angry wife threw punches in the cinema
Denis Staunton tells of shifting sands in China’s capital and how the victim and a husband want police to handle a shocking real-life incident at the movies
Beijing Letter: Xi wants distinct Chinese flavour to cyberspace menu
Data issues addressed by regulators are the same as those that preoccupy legislators in Europe
Beijing Letter: Xi Jinping showing no sign of weakness at Two Sessions conference
After last year’s protests and the scrapping of zero-Covid, China’s president is looking to tighten the party’s control over the country’s policy levers
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