The Luxury Postnatal Care Center Sixth Tone 2019-06-03 | Premium postnatal services are capitalizing on the Chinese custom of ‘zuo yuezi’ to provide middle-class mothers with high-end relaxation.
A Merman’s Dream for Acceptance Sixth Tone 2023-06-06 | Mermaid performances are gaining popularity among young people on Chinese social media platforms, but male performers are still not as widely accepted by the public as their female counterparts. Sixth Tone talks to a part time merman performer, to learn his underwater story.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1013034Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Women Take On “Greasy Men” In Latest Viral Online Challenge Sixth Tone 2023-06-01 | Young women from around China have been taking up a viral online challenge of imitating “greasy men”.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012984Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
China’s Search and Rescue Dogs Sixth Tone 2023-06-01 | China has two major professional search and rescue dog training bases. We visited one in Yunnan province’s Kunming.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Beyond The Midnight Hour Sixth Tone 2023-05-30 | Even after the last metro stops rolling, the work doesn’t stop. Maintenance crews take over to keep the Shanghai Metro running like clockwork for the 10 million passengers who ride it every day. Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012995Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Behind the Scenes With China’s Most Famous Panda Sixth Tone 2023-05-24 | Hehua’s appearance and good nature have helped her stand out from other pandas and won her online fame. Her keeper, known as “Grandpa Tan,” spills the beans about the cuddly superstar.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
How a Tibetan Village Became a Giant Factory for Buddhist Art Sixth Tone 2023-05-24 | China’s growing obsession with Buddhist paintings has transformed life in the historically Tibetan village of Wutun — and sparked local soul-searching about the trade-offs between economic progress and religious faith.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012929Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
20230512 beijing metro line NEW Sixth Tone 2023-05-15 | Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
GENERATION Z IN SHANGHAI Sixth Tone 2023-05-15 | Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Young Designer Moonlights as Private Chef Sixth Tone 2023-05-12 | A designer and culinary enthusiast in Shanghai has been cooking at weekends for people in their own homes for five months. He can earn about 1,000 yuan ($144) a month from doing something he loves.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Daddy’s Little Interpreter Sixth Tone 2023-05-10 | Clips of a 6-year-old girl using sign language with exaggerated expressions and gestures to help interpret for her father have gone viral.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
This City’s BBQ Brings All the Boys to the Yard Sixth Tone 2023-05-08 | The city of Zibo in Shandong province has received a record number of visitors after going viral on Chinese social media for its barbecue.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Bordering on Recovery: Life on China’s Russian Frontier Sixth Tone 2023-05-05 | It has now been four months since China relaxed its pandemic border restrictions. In Suifenhe, a city near the China-Russia border, cargo trade between the two countries is bouncing back strongly. Yet, the picture is more complex for small businesses here.After China reformed and opened up its economy in the 1980s, Suifenhe rose to prosperity as a hub for China-Russia trade. However, the fortunes of local trading firms have declined in recent years.The downturn in the Russian economy since 2014 has hit Suifenhe’s export business hard. Then came the pandemic, which brought waves of lockdowns lasting over 120 days in total. Now, the war in Ukraine is dampening demand for trade and tourism even further.Suifenhe is doing what it can to adapt. Local businesses have pivoted to importing goods from Russia, or selling products via cross-border e-commerce, to boost sales. For many, however, it’s an uphill battle.This is the second installment of “Bordering on Recovery,” a video series documenting life in China’s border regions after three years of COVID travel bans.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Standing Tall: A Runner’s Unlikely Journey to the Top — of Trees Sixth Tone 2023-05-05 | A national tree climbing champion, Yu Yanling now runs her own company, organizes climbing competitions, and teaches the art to adults and children.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012672Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Identity of Anfu Road Little Princess Still a Mystery One Year On Sixth Tone 2023-05-04 | A Shanghai woman dubbed the “Anfu Road Little Princess” online has become something of a celebrity for wearing Lolita dresses and a tiara while going about her daily business on a well-known road in downtown Shanghai. After spending a year in the spotlight, her identity remains unclear, while her appearance and style also remain a controversial topic online.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
5-Year-Old Boy Grows Hair Long to Help Child With Cancer Sixth Tone 2023-04-21 | A 5-year-old boy has been growing his hair for three years to help a child with cancer, whom he saw in a documentary wishing for long hair.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
The Rural Men Livestreaming for Love Sixth Tone 2023-04-14 | In Linyi, Shandong province, a growing number of single men are turning to matchmaking livestreams in the hope of finding their soul mate. In a city with a low marriage rate — less than 50,000 couples registered to marry for the first time in 2022, from a population of over 11 million people — these livestreams have become a popular platform for singles to connect.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Fashion Vlogger Divides Internet With His Bold Style Sixth Tone 2023-04-12 | A 20-year-old fashion vlogger nicknamed Xiaoshiliu came to Shanghai to work in 2018. He has received praise and criticism for his bold fashion choices.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
A Nostalgia-Inspiring Comic Sixth Tone 2023-04-10 | A man who graduated from a middle school in Huai’an in 2016 has drawn more than 20 cartoons of his alma mater to remember his middle school life.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Saccharine Sculptures Sixth Tone 2023-04-04 | A man in Qingdao province has amazed Chinese netizens with intricate artwork made from sugar.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Help Me Find My Son Sixth Tone 2023-03-31 | In 1999, Li Wei abducted Wang Lei, also known as Leilei, the 4-year-old son of Tang Weihua, his employer at an electrical store. It set in motion Tang’s 24-year search for her son.Li was sentenced to 15 years in prison for child abduction and trafficking. But later, the Second Branch of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate lodged an appeal on the grounds that the original judgment was incorrect and the sentencing was unusually lenient. In 2011, the Shanghai Municipal Second Intermediate People’s Court revoked the original judgment and sent it back for retrial. Finally, Li was convicted of kidnapping that year and sentenced to life imprisonment.In 2022, because of good behavior in prison, Li received two commutations and was released.Li provided a total of six different confessions, one of which described in detail how he pushed Leilei into a river. But in the past 23 years, countless police officers, along with Tang, have searched along the river, only to find nothing. And Li’s confessions were all overturned or deemed to contain a mix of fact and fiction.Tang wanted to know how Li abducted Leilei and what exactly happened. Who did her son end up being sold to? Where did he go? Or did Li really drown him? Wanting to find out the truth, Tang decided to ask Li to take her to where he went with her son and retrace their steps.Li initially refused, but, after much persuasion from Tang, he finally agreed to see her during the Spring Festival in 2023, albeit for just three days. Reporters from Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper documented their journey.Tang hopes that her son will watch this short documentary one day. Even if she is never able to see her son come back home, Tang wants to leave proof for him that his parents never stopped looking for him.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Retired Woman Chases Doll-Design Dream Sixth Tone 2023-03-29 | A 73-year-old woman in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province took up puppet and plushie-making in her retirement. Her work has been featured at the World Expo.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
230320复古机车 Sixth Tone 2023-03-22 | Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Hanzi, From Print to Screen Sixth Tone 2023-03-17 | Open your smartphone’s default Chinese-language input system and start typing. Odds are the text will display in simple, clear, somewhat blocky typeface. This is Heiti, a relatively young category of typefaces — but already the default on digital devices around the world.The tale of how that came to pass is not your typical “China story.” It involved designers, scientists, and bureaucrats from China to Japan, even Massachusetts, collaborating and competing for over a century. The result of their work is something once thought impossible: bringing Hanzi into the digital world.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012503Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Bordering on Recovery: Ruili, the Jade Town on the China-Myanmar Frontier Sixth Tone 2023-03-15 | Since February, Sixth Tone’s video team has been traveling to border towns all over China, documenting the complex legacy of three years of “zero-COVID” restrictions. Ruili, a city straddling China’s southwestern border with Myanmar, is the first stop in this series.Before the pandemic, Ruili rose to prosperity as a center for the jade trade. But the city faced some of China’s strictest anti-COVID measures, losing a large number of its population as a result.Now, the border has finally reopened. But as Sixth Tone’s Lü Xiao, Li Pasha and Wu Huiyuan observe, economic revival didn’t take place overnight.Read more: http://ow.ly/3tL650Nizb2Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Shanghai Cab Driver Turns Car into Therapeutic Service Sixth Tone 2023-03-14 | In Shanghai, one driver has turned his car into a place where passengers can write down their wishes on post-it notes and display them within the cab.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Man Attends His Own Funeral… Alive Sixth Tone 2023-03-09 | An 83-year-old man in China’s eastern Anhui province held a grand funeral for himself on February 27. He said the special experience was delightful.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Top University Graduate Receives Praise, Criticism for Starting a Business Sixth Tone 2023-03-07 | A college graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, one of the top universities in China, went back to her hometown and started a nail design business. Critics say she’s not ambitious enough.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Rural Kids Chase Soccer Dreams Sixth Tone 2023-03-02 | All 30 players on this soccer team are left-behind children from Yulou Village in China’s eastern Anhui province.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Auntie Zhang’s College Life Sixth Tone 2023-03-01 | At the age of 50, Zhang Jiling decided that she wanted to retake the gaokao, China’s college entrance examination.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1012378Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Basic How-Tos Earn Vlogger 1 Million Fans Sixth Tone 2023-02-28 | How do you take the bus? How do you make an order at Starbucks? 28-year-old Zhang Mengzhen makes short video guides about how to get through everyday situations to help those looking for practical advice.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Meet China’s High Heels King Sixth Tone 2023-02-24 | How far could you run in heels?Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Liquor Box Lantern Gets High Marks Sixth Tone 2023-02-16 | A father came home from work at 11 p.m. and still managed to find the time to make a lantern out of a liquor box for his kid's kindergarten assignment due the next day.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Hebei Through the Years Sixth Tone 2023-02-14 | A man from north China’s Hebei province has been photographing the immense changes in his hometown since 2005.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Dad’s Model Aircraft Carriers Are Ready for Launch Sixth Tone 2023-02-08 | A father in Yantai, Shandong province, makes realistic aircraft carrier models out of stainless steel for his children. The models are so detailed, they can even launch aircraft.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Lights Out: A Theater in China Welcomes its First Audience Sixth Tone 2023-02-03 | In Shanghai, after experiencing nearly a whole year of not being able to perform and rehearse normally due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the cast of an immersive play finally got the chance to tread the boards in front of an audience in January 2023.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
‘Marriage? Whatever’: Young Chinese on Love, Life, and Family Sixth Tone 2023-02-01 | When it comes to marriage, today’s young Chinese are swiping left in record numbers.The country’s marriage rate has plummeted in recent years, falling 12% year-over-year in 2020 alone. It’s a trend that has sparked much soul-searching in China, as the government — worried about the country’s rapidly aging society — tries to convince young people to settle down using any means it can.Polls, studies, and commentators have offered a range of theories about why China’s youth have turned off marriage so rapidly. For some, it’s a question of changing values, which is leading more people to stay single for longer. For others, it’s more about the financial pressures that come with starting families. And still others say it’s really about the country’s feminist awakening and the sexist gender roles that are associated with marriage.So which is correct? To answer this question, Sixth Tone visited several college campuses around Shanghai, and asked students what they thought.What we found, perhaps unsurprisingly, is that the answer is: all of the above, and none. Like young people everywhere, the Chinese college kids we spoke with held complex, diverse, and sometimes even contradictory attitudes toward marriage.But hearing them speak in their own words, and on their own terms, still offers some interesting insights about how the country is changing. In this video, we share some highlights from these conversations.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1011512Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Dollar-Denominated Drawings Sixth Tone 2023-01-31 | A man in Shenzhen has dumbfounded social media users with his hand-drawn U.S. dollar banknotes, and even aroused the attention of police.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Stooping for Treasures On Shanghai’s Sidewalks Sixth Tone 2023-01-31 | “Stooping,” the practice of finding and sharing discarded yet usable furniture on sidewalks, is gaining popularity among China’s young people.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
How Climate Whiplash Is Upending Life in Rural China Sixth Tone 2023-01-31 | This summer, Jiangxi province suffered a record-breaking drought and high temperatures.People in Jiangxi, especially farmers, suffered severe losses throughout the summer, when there was almost no rainfall. Dried-up rice fields, cotton fields, and fish ponds could be seen almost everywhere across the province. From an aerial view, we saw that China’s largest freshwater lake — Poyang Lake — turned into a cracked landscape, with only small muddy pools of water visible.Experts warn that with global warming already underway, extreme events like these are likely to become a new normal.In October of 2022, reporters from Sixth Tone and our sister publication The Paper paid a visit to Jiangxi, interviewed people making a living on the banks of Poyang Lake, and documented the historical drought and how it was affecting people’s lives.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
A Day in a Shanghai Park Sixth Tone 2023-01-20 | Public parks are oases of calm in modern Shanghai. Open, healing, and free for all, they are where people retreat to after a hard day’s work, an argument, or a breakup. They provide the space to calm the body and mind, escape the bustle of the city, and be in the moment — even if it’s just for a few minutes.After Shanghai emerged from a two-month lockdown earlier this year, the city’s public parks were where people rushed back to, for fresh air, freedom, and human connection.In this short three-part documentary, Sixth Tone captures the daily rhythm of life in Shanghai’s parks through three stories: a deaf community gathering every Wednesday morning at Lu Xun Park; young office workers who come to feed the stray cats in Jing’an Park during their lunch breaks; and an art professor who reads out romantic poetry at People’s Park, his local “marriage market,” on weekend afternoons.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Reporter’s Notebook: How Rural China Is Grappling With COVID Sixth Tone 2023-01-19 | In early December, China dismantled its “zero-COVID” policy that largely shielded the country from the coronavirus for three years. Within a month, the virus was everywhere.In early January, Sixth Tone video reporter Fu Beimeng traveled to remote villages in the southwestern province of Sichuan, where she witnessed firsthand how the virus surge has inundated local hospitals. Doctors there are now grappling with how to treat severely ill patients.But away from medical facilities, a lack of testing means many don’t know if they have contracted COVID or have had it previously. While the young have recovered and gone back to resuming their daily lives, it’s a different story for the elderly.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
A Day in a Shanghai Park: Reading Yeats at the Marriage Market Sixth Tone 2023-01-13 | Public parks are oases of calm in modern Shanghai. Open, healing, and free for all, they are where people retreat to after a hard day’s work, an argument, or a breakup. They provide the space to calm the body and mind, escape the bustle of the city, and be in the moment — even if it’s just for a few minutes.After Shanghai emerged from a two-month lockdown earlier this year, the city’s public parks were where people rushed back to, for fresh air, freedom, and human connection.In this series, Sixth Tone captures the daily rhythm of life in three of Shanghai’s parks. The first episode is about Cao Zaifei, an art professor who likes to read out romantic poetry at his local marriage market — a weekly meetup where residents arrange dates for their children.Read more: sixthtone.com/topics/1011152/shanghai-parksFresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
A Day in a Shanghai Park: See You Next Wednesday Sixth Tone 2023-01-13 | Public parks are oases of calm in modern Shanghai. Open, healing, and free for all, they are where people retreat to after a hard day’s work, an argument, or a breakup. They provide the space to calm the body and mind, escape the bustle of the city, and be in the moment — even if it’s just for a few minutes.After Shanghai emerged from a two-month lockdown last year, the city’s public parks were where people rushed back to, for fresh air, freedom, and human connection.In this series, Sixth Tone captures the daily rhythm of life in three of Shanghai’s parks. The third episode captures a group of deaf people meeting up at a corner in Shanghai’s Luxun Park.Read more: sixthtone.com/topics/1011152/shanghai-parksFresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Confronting the Peak of the Epidemic in a Shanghai Hospital Sixth Tone 2023-01-12 | Since China ended its “zero-COVID” policies in late 2022, the virus has started to spread unchecked. In Shanghai alone, the number of emergency cases in many hospitals across the city has soared since December, and Punan Branch of Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine is one of those hospitals bearing the brunt.The large number of patients who have been admitted in such a short space of time, especially those who are seriously ill, has increased the burden on the medical system. To make things worse, during the peak of the Omicron wave in December, most medical staff at the Punan Branch of Renji Hospital were infected, which aggravated an already severe situation for a medical system with insufficient resources.Fortunately, the medical staff returned to their positions in late December, though they have still not fully recovered. One of the hospital’s emergency nurses pointed out that their daily workload increased nearly tenfold compared to normal. In this regard, the hospital has diverted patients to different wards and linked all departments to ensure the best possible treatment for patients during these tough times.Reporters from The Paper, Sixth Tone’s sister publication, recorded the tense moments experienced by patients and the hard work of doctors on the front line in the hospital. It has been translated and edited for brevity and clarity.Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
A Day in a Shanghai Park: Strays Sixth Tone 2022-12-23 | Public parks are oases of calm in modern Shanghai. Open, healing, and free for all, they are where people retreat to after a hard day’s work, an argument, or a breakup. They provide the space to calm the body and mind, escape the bustle of the city, and be in the moment — even if it’s just for a few minutes.After Shanghai emerged from a two-month lockdown earlier this year, the city’s public parks were where people rushed back to, for fresh air, freedom, and human connection.In this series, Sixth Tone captures the daily rhythm of life in three of Shanghai’s parks. The second episode follows a young couple who are unable to keep pets at home, but like to feed the strays at Jing’an Park.Read more: sixthtone.com/news/1011965Fresh voices from today's China: News, stories and commentaries told from a human perspective.Find more China's stories on: sixthtone.comFollow us on:Facebook: facebook.com/sixthtoneTwitter: twitter.com/SixthToneInstagram: instagram.com/sixthtone
Go Farther, Shanghai Express (By Jiefang Daily) Sixth Tone 2022-10-12 | By the end of September, 2022, the “China-Europe Shanghai Express” has reached 6 countries and more than 20 cities along the Belt and Road.
