- 6 minutes 34 seconds[The China Project] China launches its youngest-ever astronauts into space
Three new astronauts are heading to China’s Tiangong space station, which is about to get even bigger in the coming years.
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Narrated by Yingyun Zhang.
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8 November 2023, 11:52 pm - 8 minutes 8 seconds[Caixin Global] The struggle facing big-box supermarkets in China
Carrefour’s shrinking presence is emblematic of broader gloom that has befallen the country’s supermarket operators that are competing with e-commerce platforms and smaller stores.
Click here to read the article by Ding Yi and Sun Yanran.
Narrated by Sarah Kutulakos.
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8 November 2023, 1:24 am - 10 minutes 22 seconds[The China Project] Toddler mauling in China prompts crackdown on dogs, rekindles debate over pet etiquette
In the aftermath of an off-leash Rottweiler’s attack of a two-year-old in China last week, officials in several counties have enacted sweeping measures against stray dogs.
Click here to read the article by Zhao Yuanyuan.
Narrated by Elyse Ribbons.
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3 November 2023, 9:05 pm - 10 minutes 48 seconds[The World of Chinese] How did ancient Chinese advertise?
Slogans, music, celebrities, and rhymes all helped ancient Chinese advertise their wares for sale.
Click here to read the article by Sun Jiahui.
Narrated by Cliff Larsen.
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3 November 2023, 9:00 pm - 14 minutes 6 seconds[The World of Chinese] Bitter no more: How young Chinese became obsessed with TCM
Forget bubble tea, traditional Chinese medicine is the latest trend among youth.
Click here to read the article by Shao Yefan.
Narrated by Cliff Larsen.
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31 October 2023, 8:54 pm - 13 minutes 31 seconds[The China Project] How China is attempting to change nature conservation
China is undergoing a great experiment — tightly controlled and driven by big data — that it hopes will offer an alternative way of protecting the planet. For all our sakes, let’s hope it works.
Click here to read the article by Kyle Obermann.
Narrated by Anthony Tao.
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27 October 2023, 8:00 pm - 15 minutes 31 seconds[Caixin Global] Chinese in the crosshairs of ‘mushrooming’ transnational cybercrime
UN says hundreds of thousands have been forced into participating in unlawful online scam operations in Myanmar and Cambodia, many of them Chinese.
Click here to read the article by Qin Jianhang and Han Wei.
Narrated by Cliff Larsen.
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27 October 2023, 8:00 pm - 8 minutes 43 seconds[The China Project] Los Angeles Chinatown, 1871: The forgotten mass lynching
In October 1871, 10% of the Chinese population in Los Angeles was wiped out in a senseless spasm of violence.
Click here to read the article by James Carter.
Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.
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25 October 2023, 4:43 pm - 10 minutes 20 seconds[The World of Chinese] Acrobats, tai chi, kids: What makes a Chinese opening ceremony?
From celebrations of workers at the 1959 National Games to vast displays of technological prowess during this year’s Asian Games, China’s opening ceremonies have evolved dramatically over time.
Click here to read the article by Dylan Levi King.
Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.
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24 October 2023, 10:39 pm - 9 minutes 47 seconds[The World of Chinese] Community Canteens For Seniors Take Off Among Chinese Youth
Young people turn to government-funded community canteens for seniors in China amid food safety scandals and the rising cost of meals.
Click here to read the article by Yang Tingting.
Narrated by Kim Dalrymple.
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24 October 2023, 8:00 pm - 9 minutes 51 seconds[The China Project] A young Deng Xiaoping in France
In the early years of the Chinese republic, progressives looked west for political inspiration. This was how Deng Xiaoping — who would eventually lead China — came to be in France in the 1920s. He and his peers did indeed find inspiration abroad — just not the kind that his bourgeois sponsors anticipated.
Click here to read the article by James Carter.
Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.
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