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Remember Beijing in ’08? Sixth Tone Wants to Hear From You

Next month, Beijing will host the Olympic Games for the second time, along with neighboring cities.

2 min readJan 12, 2022

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Remember Beijing in ’08? Sixth Tone Wants to Hear From You

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Chinese Buyers Join Metaverse Land Rush

Artist 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 readJan 4, 2022

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Chinese Buyers Join Metaverse Land Rush

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Confronting China’s Child Sex Abuse Crisis: The Story of Sisi

This story is part of Sixth Tone’s five-year anniversary project Changemakers.

10 min readApr 11, 2021

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Confronting China’s Child Sex Abuse Crisis: The Story of Sisi

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Their 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 readJan 19, 2021

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Their Only Child Gone, ‘Shidu’ Parents Shun China’s Kid-Centric Society

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Dropping 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 readSep 16, 2020

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Dropping in on China’s ‘Parachute Generation’

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Sixth Tone Honored at 2020 SOPA Awards

Sixth Tone received two Awards for Excellence and three Honorable Mentions at this year’s Society of Publishers in Asia Awards.

1 min readAug 27, 2020

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Sixth Tone Honored at 2020 SOPA Awards

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Sixth Tone

China’s Hidden Crisis: A Growing Elder Care Gap

SHANGHAI — Huang Ernan knows the live-in caretaker she hires to look after her elderly mother isn’t really up to the job.

8 min readAug 18, 2020

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China’s Hidden Crisis: A Growing Elder Care Gap

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The Life, Death, and Potential Rebirth of China’s ‘Taitai’ Housewives

Late 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 readAug 17, 2020

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The Life, Death, and Potential Rebirth of China’s ‘Taitai’ Housewives

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China’s 35M Domestic Workers, Silent No More

There are an estimated 35 million domestic workers in China. Mostly clustered in large urban areas like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and…

6 min readJul 22, 2020

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China’s 35M Domestic Workers, Silent No More

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Locked In, Locked Out: The Foreign Students Stuck in Limbo

As Preslava Pavlova waited to begin her thesis defense for her undergraduate program in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the…

8 min readJun 24, 2020

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Locked In, Locked Out: The Foreign Students Stuck in Limbo

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Sixth Tone

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Fresh voices of everyday China: Bringing you stories of life in contemporary China through the eyes of those living it www.sixthtone.com

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