Visual stories that get up close and personal with contemporary China. A mix of short videos, documentaries, photography, and data visualization.

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How Do Chinese Spend Their Time?

The National Time-Use Survey is perhaps the best window into how 1.4 billion Chinese split their days between work, play, and sleep. Here are some of this year’s answers.

Luo Yahan

Young Lives, Heavy Dust: Battling Pneumoconiosis

The Paper

Lü Xiao

Collage: At China Expo, Trade Meets Tech 

Snapshots from the China International Import Expo (CIIE).

Sixth Tone

Bringing Back Baile

Wu Huiyuan 

The Chinese Dining Chains Making a Play for World Domination

Hot pot and milk tea have become global phenomena, but most brands remain focused on countries closer to home.

Wang Jingyang

Nostalgia in the City: Shanghai in the Booming ’90s 

Shanghai in the 1990s is the subject of much nostalgic yearning. A new photography exhibition transports viewers back to this consequential period of the city’s — and country’s — history.

Wu Dong

The General’s Tomb

What can a 3,000-year-old grave tell us about life during the Shang Dynasty?

China’s Most Devastating Summer Yet, By the Numbers

The nation was hit by record-breaking typhoons, floods, and heatwaves in recent months, causing widespread damage and pushing its resilience to the limit.

China’s City of Bicycles

How Shanghai became the capital of China’s two-wheeled craze.

Moonlight Legends: The Rabbits at the Center of Mid-Autumn Festival

Since ancient times, paper decorations depicting the moon-walking Jade Rabbit, as well as figurines of the Rabbit God, have been key components of this traditional Chinese holiday.