Chinese Dreams Project

Every year, when the spring is approaching, millions of art students would surge into various art academies to take exams. Chen Huimin is one of the huge army called art students. Every weekend, the girl with...

With whiskers almost covering half of his face, Jiang seems much older than his real age. It was nearly two o’clock in the afternoon. Jiang’s parents had finished their lunch for a long time, but he was still in...

Marziye, is a Uyghur girl from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. She is also a freshman in Nanjing University, along with 31 other Uyghur freshmen. Marziye started learning Chinese when she was in kindergarten on her...

One day in early December 2014, a group of designers was scolded by the boss for a negative working attitude. As the youngest one in the design department, Zhong Weiwei was silent. Two men were fired after the meeting,...

On weekends in the XuanWu Lake Park in Nanjing, Chinese parents hang placards as helper of finding suitable spouses for their unmarried children. Most of the advertisements center around salary, car and apartment. This kind of match-making corner is...

While a spring thunderstorm in the night revitalized the sleeping world, Qian Yafeng and his team were shivering in the cold, pushing a broken-down motor tricycle full of parcels towards a distant dorm. It was 18th March, the first...

When Liu Qiao got off the plane that landed at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport after 28 hours’ flying, it was sprinkling. Liu took a deep breath, and then realized a faint smell of moist mud and grass. This is the...

In Chinese tradition, men are expected to be breadwinners, while women rear family`s children. Even through women may also earn a certain part of the family income, their career was been seen as secondary. But now the tradition has...