Feature Stories

“The convenience of the high trees” Convenience is a hot topic in China. There is much talk of the convenience of life here, all of us app-tapping our way to easy food, shopping and travel. Convenience had a super-boost with the...

For those of us blessed with the need for convenience, at its most potent and circumspect, the ability to take no corner that may be cut, to streamline a process on par with the boarding and take-off of an...

Nora hated hearing Matt’s friends refer to that girl as a “snack”, as if a woman was a tasty meal to be consumed.  But if the girl she watched him take to the hotel was a snack, then she herself...

Perceptions: cultural, historical, and biological. Our perceptions colour our experiences, influence our judgments and shape our interactions with other people. An oft-quoted anecdote runs that in 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution....

What's your idea of getting to work each morning? Getting on that half-broken moped you've had for years and just hoping it makes it? Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who gets to sit in traffic for...

I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...

New mothers in today’s China are very likely to be seen pushing a pram while looking at their iPhone. Nothing strange about that, you might think. But let’s back up a little. When I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing in 2003,...

Makayla sat on her broomstick hovering over the dark twisted trees below, wondering how they were still standing all these years later. She once again, thought back to that time, lazily trying to recall if there were any other...