Even as the United States has tried to slow China’s advancements, it has not held back the practice of openly releasing software to encourage its adoption.
While warrior monks with an online following have broadened the reach of Shaolin, some question if it is fitting for them to embrace the Internet. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Over the past few weeks, the publications Sina, Tencent, Caixin, China Youth Daily, and the publishing duo Sixth Tone/The Paper published photo stories on the intimate, the industrial, the private, and the political. Journalists Yan Cong and Ye Ming have rounded up the best documentary photography of the month published in China by Chinese photographers.
On a freezing winter day, boys as young as 7 are running shirtless in a Beijing Park, training to be "real men." It's part of a backlash in China against flawlessly made-up Chinese pop stars and an existential fear for nation's "virility."