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.2 min read·Jan 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…8 min read·Jan 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.10 min read·Apr 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…5 min read·Jan 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…5 min read·Sep 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.1 min read·Aug 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.8 min read·Aug 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…6 min read·Aug 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…6 min read·Jul 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…8 min read·Jun 24, 2020----