Sixth Tone @SixthTone
Fresh voices from today's China — news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube. SixthTone.com Shanghai Joined February 2016-
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Animator Yang Zikuang’s “Chinese beaver” clip became a global viral sensation this year. He’s more surprised than anyone. He never really meant for the clip to become a meme. sixthtone.com/news/1015067
“Study rooms hold out the promise of self-development and improvement, even as they encourage people to wear themselves thinner and thinner.” ow.ly/nUS250RoZi6
Liang Kaiyu and his multi-functional prosthetic gadgets have gone viral online. He hopes to mass-produce some of his designs to benefit more people. Check out more Daily Tones: ow.ly/ia3550RoMeT
A humanoid robot mans the information desk ahead of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, April 24, 2025. VCG Check out more Daily Tones: ow.ly/Ukm250RoZ5h
After a retrospective analysis of children under 14 years old treated for spinal cord injuries, a hospital in Beijing found a significant increase in injuries related to backbends in dance. Over 1,000 children have reportedly been paralyzed since 2005. ow.ly/C3Zb50RoYVU
Jiangnan, literally “south of the river,” is the name given to the region south of the lower reaches of China’s Yangtze River, and is one of three major cultural brands in Shanghai, holding profound connotations and timeless charm. ow.ly/Ucqq50RoN6i
Pneumoconiosis is the most reported occupational disease in the country, accounting for about 90% of the total. Check out more Daily Tones: ow.ly/ia3550RoMeT
As oversaturation hits the world’s largest ride-hailing market, drivers are struggling to cope with low earnings, long hours, and increased health risks. Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1015043
Traditionally favored by older generations, Yue opera has seen a resurgence among young Chinese after the viral success of one theater’s adaptation of a classic ’90s action movie. ow.ly/P0jT50RnXc9
Historian Rong Xinjiang has spent the past 13 years trying to produce the definitive Chinese edition of “The Travels of Marco Polo.” ow.ly/RP9Q50RnX3F
Chinese stagings of classic plays tend to be overly faithful to the source material or commercialized cash grabs. ow.ly/1vUP50RnWOL
Shanghai has announced that local hotels will be banned from forcing guests to use facial recognition scanners during check-in — a move that appears to reflect a wider shift in Chinese government attitudes toward the technology. ow.ly/v8gT50RnXI2
Job hopping is suddenly out of style. A recent report from recruitment platform Zhaopin found that 18.9% of China’s white-collar workers think finding a job will be “very difficult” this year, up from 12.6% in 2023. Read more: ow.ly/iH5u50RnWp1
People watch a Peking opera performance in a village in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, April 24, 2024. VCG Check out more Daily Tones: ow.ly/aMix50RnOxU
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Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe
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Looking forward to watching Wong Kar-wai's Blossoms Shanghai. We’re working on an 🇺🇸+🇨🇳 oral history project on this period with documentary filmmaker @chris__pc.
A slew of Shanghainese words in the runaway hit period drama “Blossoms Shanghai” is breathing new life into a fading dialect. Directed and produced by the legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, “Blossoms Shanghai” was adapted from Jin Yucheng’s award-winning novel of the…
This is an excellent list. We’ve covered most of them in Slow Chinese over the year. Although some translations differ. For example, our “Crispy College Students” 脆皮大学生 is translated as “glass jaw undergrads” here. Which also works! Great work by @SixthTone
In China, buzzwords on social media are more than just trendy phrases; they’re a snapshot of a society in flux, capturing everything from the daily grind to the joys and challenges of modern life. In 2023, this lexicon ranged from new takes on parenting and the growing…
Has Sichuanese cuisine peaked in popularity in China? An interesting survey!
Sichuanese cuisine is everywhere, according to a new survey, but there are signs of spice fatigue. Two new surveys from the China Catering Industry Research Institute and delivery app Meituan have found that, while spice is still king, the milder flavors of Cantonese cooking are…
It was lovely to be interviewed by an Asian American student who had read my article @SixthTone on Madam Ching, China's pirate queen, for her school project. This tells me my writing is reaching the wider public it is aimed at and making a difference to younger generations. 1/
Deciphering Dunhuang @SixthTone; sixthtone.com/news/1014195?f…
Fascinating story!
“I have a chip in my head that lets me control my emotions.” After 16 years of battling “demons,” one patient says he has been given a second chance at life by a brain-computer interface developed in Shanghai. ow.ly/2CX850PYZQ1
Great visit at @SixthTone today in Shanghai, an incredible source of information on contemporary China🙏
@SixthTone I used to live in this neighborhood (even caught a glimpse of my old building!). This video reminds me of some of the things that made it a great place to live...
Great interview by @SixthTone with Peter Hessler. Thoughtful questions and helpful to get some writing tips on writing creative non-fiction sixthtone.com/news/1013557
"Everyone's got some waves to ride, man. Spend enough time with someone, and you’ll see the drops, the wipeouts, and the gnarly rides. Just gotta hang tight. Everyone's got a story; sometimes it just takes a bit to catch it." The art of non-fiction according to Picoli-Hessler
This spring, Peter Hessler sat down with Sixth Tone for a wide-ranging email interview covering his experiences teaching two very different generations of Chinese, the importance of people-to-people exchanges, and his approach to writing. sixthtone.com/news/1013557
📰 Read the report here: sixthtone.com/news/1011071 Congratulations @SixthTone!
🏆 The Award for Excellence in Regional Explanatory Reporting goes to @SixthTone "Inside China's Real Estate Crisis" for an excellent explainer of China's complex real estate crisis that doesn't just focus on problems but also taps experts for solutions. #SOPAwards2023
📷 Check the entry here: sixthtone.com/news/1011074 Congratulations @SixthTone!
🏆 The Excellence in Regional #Photography goes to @SixthTone for a story masterfully told by a set of photographs, which reveal the effort & resilience of the people affected by the irresponsibility of developers of real estate projects. #SOPAwards2023
3rd piece of my column w/ @SixthTone ! Masternarratives aren’t everything. When we talk about Chinese sci-fi, though Liu Cixin is important, it’s also time to acknowledge the various ways that younger Chinese writers are redefining Chinese modernity and the sci-fi genre.
“Many young Chinese writers are not only seeking to leave Liu Cixin’s shadow, but they’re also moving past Anglophone genre conventions and Soviet cultural legacies to redefine the sci-fi genre and recast the shape of Chinese futurity.” ow.ly/spvl50MXIci
"carrying on the family lien" was RIGHT THERE
传宗接代 (chuán zōng jiē dài) is a term meaning to carry on one’s ancestral line. Netizens have reacted to the news that banks will now provide 30-year mortgages to the elderly, by replacing the idiom’s final character with the homophone 贷 (dài). ow.ly/mQGs50MXB7T
Excellent reportage vidéo de Sixthtone, sur les campagnes au temps du COVID. Après une couverture très limitée en décembre on voit beaucoup plus de reportages sur l'impact du virus, dans les médias chinois en ce moment
In early December, China dismantled its “zero-COVID” policy. Within a month, the virus was everywhere. Sixth Tone’s @BeimengFu traveled to remote villages in the southwestern province of Sichuan, where she witnessed firsthand how the virus surge has inundated local hospitals.
Excellent, important report by @BeimengFu on how parts of the Chinese country-side are coping with their first wave of Covid. For people who've never been, it's easy to forget how large China is and how different life can be from places like Beijing and Shanghai.
In early December, China dismantled its “zero-COVID” policy. Within a month, the virus was everywhere. Sixth Tone’s @BeimengFu traveled to remote villages in the southwestern province of Sichuan, where she witnessed firsthand how the virus surge has inundated local hospitals.
Sixth Tone has assembled a nice little thematic mini-series here, inviting people from within the industry to write about various aspects of China's power generation mix, from coal to renewables to nuclear. Worthy reads for anyone interested in the Chinese power sector.
In the wake of this summer’s extreme weather event, Sixth Tone invited five experts to share their views on how China could achieve its climate goals while maintaining energy stability. interaction.sixthtone.com/feature/2022/F…
I wrote a piece for @SixthTone on @kyliu99’s “The Dandelion Dynasty”, in which I read the genre of silkpunk as a way of decolonization by proposing a new kind of cosmopolitan modernity, and discuss KYL’s “cosmonarratology”. Here’s to more dragons :) sixthtone.com/news/1011617
“Even if you’re completely unwilling, even if your feet are shackled to the ground, you have no choice but to go to the world. Because even if your feet grow wings, you can’t leave this world behind.” Important words for Chinese readers in the 80s and, ironically, today as well.
In 1980, Zhong Shuhe published the first book in his initial series of 35 titles. They are now praised as having helped China achieve intellectual liberation after decades of dogma. ow.ly/MFHc50L524Z
Life in One of China’s Unfinished Apartment Complexes.@SixthTone sixthtone.com/news/1011074/l…
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