After China’s debt-fueled real estate bubble popped, vast housing developments across the country were left partially abandoned — including “Life in Venice," a sprawling residential complex perched on ...

The "complete victory" capped eight years of arduous efforts to lift the final 98.99 million rural residents living under the ...

Rows of farm courtyards, restored to retain their original appearance, have been transformed into distinctive workshops of intangible cultural heritage. They feature native Shanxi crafts such as black ...

China is home to about 489,000 administrative villages, along with millions of natural villages and settlements. In February ...

From Japan's Hashima Island to France's Oradour-sur-Glane, these moss-covered and dilapidated places house tragic and complicated histories.

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...

Russia’s army chief Valery Gerasimov visited Moscow’s troops in Ukraine and said the Kremlin’s forces seized a dozen eastern villages in February, the defence ministry said on Sunday. Gerasimov’s ...

Over the past month, Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have begun dismantling the myth of the “American dream,” replacing glossy imagery with firsthand accounts showing that ...

After graduating with a degree in art design from Beijing Jiaotong University, most would have expected Li Zezhou to set his sights on a career in a big city. Instead, he returned to the forests and ...

“On Jan. 11, my family is going to slaughter two pigs; can anyone help me restrain the pigs during the slaughter? My dad’s old — I don’t think he has it in him to restrain them.” This message posted ...

Chinese commentators are talking a lot these days about poverty in the United States, claiming China’s superiority by appropriating an evocative phrase from video game culture. The phrase, “kill line, ...