Photographer He Xu first passed through the China-Nepal border at Gyirong Port in 2010. He remembers that it was just a row of rustic, clay-colored bungalows. Over the past 16 years, he has revisited ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on how AI is reshaping China’s ultrashort-drama industry. Read part 1. JIANGSU, East China — Chen Hao’s old desktop still has more than 10 ...

China’s ultrashort-drama boom built a sprawling live-action industry of actors, directors, crews, and filming bases. Now, as AI drives down production costs, shoots are disappearing and companies are ...

“Every time fishermen head out to sea, they have to face the uncertainty of the ocean. When a storm hits — you can only head back to port.” Zhuge Yiyang, an essayist and podcaster better known online ...

China’s signature local specialty Lanzhou lamian, or Lanzhou pulled noodles — named after the capital city of the northwestern Gansu province — are undergoing a rebranding. At many noodle shops across ...

“Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” opens, somewhat incongruously, in a Chinese family kitchen. A middle-aged man prepares an elaborate meal, and the camera glides over a dazzling feast: glistening ...

For the better part of two years, Scaramouche was Li’s confidant, her late-night companion, and the voice that distracted her from her insecurities. He was also, by any technical definition, just ...

This is the third piece in a series on the “Dongbei Renaissance.” The second can be read here. Over the past three years, China’s northeastern rust belt has seemingly taken over the country’s pop ...

This is the second article in a series about the Chinese Eastern Railway, a historic train line in China’s far northeast. The first article can be found here. When the Russians came to northeastern ...