Sixth ToneRemember Beijing in ’08? Sixth Tone Wants to Hear From YouNext month, Beijing will host the Olympic Games for the second time, along with neighboring cities.Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
Sixth ToneChinese Buyers Join Metaverse Land RushArtist Huang Heshan started building virtual houses as an art project. Now, a boom in interest in virtual property has got him selling them…Jan 4, 2022Jan 4, 2022
Sixth ToneConfronting China’s Child Sex Abuse Crisis: The Story of SisiThis story is part of Sixth Tone’s five-year anniversary project Changemakers.Apr 11, 2021Apr 11, 2021
Sixth ToneTheir Only Child Gone, ‘Shidu’ Parents Shun China’s Kid-Centric Society“I used to enjoy having dinner with my friends, but since my son died, I no longer want to go,” says Wang, a woman in her early 60s who…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Sixth ToneDropping in on China’s ‘Parachute Generation’The summer Zhang Lingli turned 14, she left her family in the southern city of Guangzhou behind and began a new life at a private high…Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020
Sixth ToneSixth Tone Honored at 2020 SOPA AwardsSixth Tone received two Awards for Excellence and three Honorable Mentions at this year’s Society of Publishers in Asia Awards.Aug 27, 2020Aug 27, 2020
Sixth ToneChina’s Hidden Crisis: A Growing Elder Care GapSHANGHAI — Huang Ernan knows the live-in caretaker she hires to look after her elderly mother isn’t really up to the job.Aug 18, 2020Aug 18, 2020
Sixth ToneThe Life, Death, and Potential Rebirth of China’s ‘Taitai’ HousewivesLate last month, a reporter with Sixth Tone’s sister publication, The Paper, reached out to me for comment on China’s latest televised hit…Aug 17, 2020Aug 17, 2020
Sixth ToneChina’s 35M Domestic Workers, Silent No MoreThere are an estimated 35 million domestic workers in China. Mostly clustered in large urban areas like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and…Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Sixth ToneLocked In, Locked Out: The Foreign Students Stuck in LimboAs Preslava Pavlova waited to begin her thesis defense for her undergraduate program in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the…Jun 24, 2020Jun 24, 2020