Chinas

Searching for the promised land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries

What’s left of Uyghur culture in Xinjiang?

Experts warn of a “museumification” of Uyghur culture, driven by the forced disappearance of its leaders

Beyond good intentions

What happens when helping disabled people in China becomes more about charity than equality?

A shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go

When the whistleblower becomes the prisoner

How a Chinese videographer who documented Xinjiang’s detention facilities found himself facing deportation from the United States

The Mask Park incident

Jessie Lau explores local reporting on China’s ‘Mask Park Incident’—and what it reveals about the media, state narratives, and sexual exploitation, both online and off

Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

How a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye

One man, one woman, one version of Hong Kong

Inside Hong Kong’s Legislative Council debate on same-sex unions – and what happens when homophobia becomes policy language On 12 February 2025, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council spent just over ninety

Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet

A personal essay by a young Manchu woman attending university in Tibet, documenting the experience of being from an ethnic minority background in China. Recommended by: Jessie Lau “What does

The rescue that never came

A harrowing investigation into how young people are trafficked into scam compoundsn in Southeast Asia, and the journey of one Chinese family seeking justice for their son

Faith and fish fillet burgers

An exploration of halal Hong Kong. Halal food is becoming more visible in Hong Kong. But for the city’s 300,000-strong Muslim community, it’s about far more than what’s on the

Sold as wives, trapped as strangers

A Singaporean journalist traces how Southeast Asian women are trafficked into marriage in China—and what it takes to escape When Chan boarded the plane to China, she had no idea

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