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A Dying Business? Funeral Goods Stores Feel the Pinch

Translations, cross-publications, and collaborative projects from Sixth Tone’s external partners. 

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Efforts to ban “superstitious” products and changing traditions have put pressure on traders in a northern Chinese village famed for its funeral and memorial supplies.

Break From Tradition: More Men Seeking Matrilocal Marriages

In Hangzhou, men are clamoring to find families in need of a ‘live-in son-in-law’ to escape the financial and emotional pressures of China’s traditional marriage market.