Archive - Chinarrative

Chinarrative Recommends: Brands, Buns and Retreats

Issue 62 is out! In this edition, we’re taking a bit of a fresh tack, highlighting some recent stories that caught our eye in Chinese media.

Jan 25

I Was Trafficked to Myanmar to Work as a Phone Scammer

Jan 7

December 2023

University Grads Flock to Food Delivery as China's Job Market Dries Up

Dec 10, 2023

July 2023

Qiqihar Gym Roof Collapse Leaves Thousands Mourning

@ByChinarrative features @sixthtone story about how friends of victims, rescuers, and construction industry insiders recount the worst tragedy that the…

Jul 30, 2023

August 2022

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…

Aug 30, 2022

July 2022

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…

Jul 31, 2022

June 2022

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…

Jun 15, 2022

April 2022

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…

Apr 17, 2022

March 2022

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…

Mar 12, 2022

September 2021

Forty-Eight Hours of Hell: Stranded on a Train in China’s Summer Floods

Sep 9, 2021

July 2021

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”).

Jul 5, 2021

April 2021

They Tore My China Dream Down

Apr 25, 2021

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