Misinformation about coronavirus has pressure-tested our trust in news and information sources especially when it comes to China—ground zero for the pandemic. But what is it really like for people there right now?

How Heidegger’s notion of dwelling helps understand problems with the vehicle space.

Economic change in China will move hundreds of millions of households from poverty to prosperity. But what does everyday life look like for a Chinese family? One of our ethnographers shares some intimate experiences from a meeting with a middle-class man who has lived through the country’s enormous transformation.

This paper attempts to revive Mauss’s concept of the total social fact as a means of understanding new markets. Our case study of alcohol in China illuminates the spirit baijiu’s connections to the total social facts of guanxi and hierarchy.

The business banquet has become the new battleground for career-minded Chinese women. 

Chinese people, particularly women, will either compliment your good skin or tell you that you are very fat with no difficulty or reservation on the details. Relatives, friends, and colleagues will happily exchange remarks and comments about each other’s face color, hair condition, and body size.

With China’s rapid modernization, middle-class parents are caught between new and traditional ways of parenting, and the truism over the past few decades that Chinese children don’t play or have fun is now being challenged.