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New Chinese Study Links City Childhood to Early Puberty in Girls

2025-12-18 00:00:00

Based on brain scans and survey data from nearly 3,000 young women, researchers used age at first menstruation and personality tests to examine how urban childhood environments shape development.

Why So Many Chinese Literati Were Capricorns

2025-12-18 00:00:00

While the zodiac signs are often associated with personality and birth month, in ancient China, Capricorn came to symbolize struggle, hardship, and human resilience, appearing in writings throughout the ages.

Act Your Age? Chinese Dramas Thrust Preschoolers Into Adult Roles

2025-12-18 00:00:00

With children central to many ultrashort dramas, young actors are enduring grueling schedules to shoot scripts far beyond their understanding.

The Island, the Man, and the Long Goodbye

2025-12-18 00:00:00

On Donghai Island, photographer Chen Liang documents a landscape, a family, and a way of life caught in transformation.

Silver Is the New Gold: How Retail Is Adapting to an Aging China

2025-12-17 00:00:00

A new wave of stores is blending design, comfort, and dignity as China’s older consumers become impossible to ignore.

After Decades of Heavy Use, China Curbs Road Deicing Chemicals

2025-12-17 00:00:00

Amid growing environmental concerns, Beijing and other pilot cities are moving to ban or curb the use of snow-melting chemicals.