Clik here to view.
Shanghai Migrants Face Eviction From Their Boat Houses
On a sunny spring day, the hodgepodge of house boats moored along Shanghai’s willow-lined New Chapu River look almost idyllic. But their inhabitants face immediate eviction. The boats — about 60 in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beijing Bans Misleading Wording in Property Ads
The Beijing government is pulling out all the stops to arrest the city’s rapidly inflating housing prices. The most recent measure: ordering real estate websites to remove some of their favorite...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Disgruntled Tenants Attack Shanghai Police
Shanghai police were in an hours-long standoff with local residents on Thursday afternoon after personnel from a demolition company were attacked while working inside a building that had been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Senior’s Struggle to Start Her Own Retirement Home
When retired factory worker Liu Xixian saw on TV that the government wanted more privately funded retirement homes, she thought starting one herself would be great way to grow old with her friends....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xiongan Poets’ Society Fights to Protect Literature of the Lake
HEBEI, North China — A boatman rows a flat-bottomed vessel across the wide, languid waters of Baiyang Lake, or “Baiyangdian.” Behind him, new willow and poplar leaves quiver in the early spring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beijing Shuts Housing Market’s Sham Divorce Loophole
Getting an insincere divorce will no longer make it cheaper to buy a second home in Beijing. The tactic was popular among those wishing to circumvent rules that make buying a second house more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xiongan Poets’ Society Fights to Protect Literature of the Lake
HEBEI, North China — A boatman rows a flat-bottomed vessel across the wide, languid waters of Baiyang Lake, or “Baiyangdian.” Behind him, new willow and poplar leaves quiver in the early spring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beijing Enlists Dancing Grannies to Deter Jaywalkers
If anything can distract China’s would-be jaywalkers from their law-flouting ways, it’s dancing grannies and small children — or at least that’s the logic behind a new video from the Tongzhou District...
View Article