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Red August: 'Landmines' and Other Evils
Issue 58: Weili Fan recalls her childhood memories from the height of the Cultural Revolution, describing how commonplace it became to humiliate and…
Growing Up by the Sea in Qingdao
Issue 57 of @ByChinarrative takes us to the coastal city of Qingdao, where writer Weili Fan grew up. She shares memories from the 1950s and 1960s, when…
Runology: How to Run Away From China
Issue 56 of @ByChinarrative looks at how China's forever lockdowns have caused some to look for a radical solution: to emigrate, or run away from what…
The Travails of Shanghai's Migrant Workers Under Lockdown
Issue 55 of Chinarrative looks at Shanghai’s estimated five million migrant workers, many of whom are unable to work during the pandemic…
Escape from Ukraine: A Chinese Student's Story
Issue 54 A 23-year-old Anhui native describes his journey from Kharkiv to the Romanian capital Bucharest amid bombings and uncertainties…
Forty-Eight Hours of Hell: Stranded on a Train in China’s Summer Floods
Issue No. 53
Trained, Tamed, Coined: Decoding China Tech Corporate Gibberish
Issue. 52 features China tech insiders' views on the overwhelming tide of meaningless corporate jargon, or heihua (“黑话”).
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