May 08
As rural content booms online, Lin Yangduo has gone viral promoting village tourism and local products with a formula that makes him deeply uncomfortable.
For a generation losing faith in any single career path, money has become a tool for managing risk, claiming autonomy, and building a life on their own terms.
Wu Tongyu
May 05
Sociologist
China’s rural data-labeling centers relied on mothers who could work, care for children and hold households in place all at once. Now many of those same women are being judged unfit for the future of AI.
Wu Tongyu
May 04
Sociologist
In the country’s less-developed hinterlands, labeling data to train AI models has become a poverty-alleviation tool.
Street food vendor Bai Xianying’s resemblance to the “King of Mandopop” made him an overnight hit — but he prefers flipping pancakes to chasing fame.
For 15 years, Chinese farmer Cheng Yunfu had sold cheap hand-pulled noodles at a local fair — then a trending video sent his life spinning out of control.
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