How One Obscure Word Captures Urban China’s Unhappiness

“Anthropologist Xiang Biao explains why the academic concept of ‘involution’ became a social media buzzword.”

Source: Sixth Tone
Published: Nov 4, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,833 words)

Melting Away

Serial relocation of the semi-nomadic, reindeer-herding Evenki is not only destroying their culture and language, it’s endangering the reindeer as a species. Who’s to blame? The Chinese government, who has insisted on relocating the Evenki herders three times since 1949.

Source: Sixth Tone
Published: Sep 1, 2018
Length: 29 minutes (7,472 words)