Reporter @SixthTone | @MedillSchool | @NorthwesternU, @penn_state 16 | Bilingual visual journo | Documentary filmmaker | Certificated feline language speaker.
Joined August 2013
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23 Jul 2018
I had the best reporting trip! Can’t wait to work on our story from #Lagos #Nigeria with @Jiayueeee @Brent_Huffman @Medill_Doc #lifeatmedill
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28 Apr 2021
sixthtone.com/news/1007301 Home of the Stars is a last resort, rather than a utopia. Most of the parents would prefer their kids live normal, independent lives, but they also know in reality this might not be possible.
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11 Jan 2021
“I wanted a story to go beyond the headlines and show the humanity of Yingying and her relatives,” @jiayanjennyshi said.
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5 Jan 2021
According to a survey, over 80% of more than 11,000 respondents reported working overtime on a regular basis, while 70% said such hours were unpaid.
4 Jan 2021
The death of a young employee at Chinese e-commerce site Pinduoduo has again underscored the grueling labor conditions that remain prevalent in some domestic tech companies.
“She was just 23 years old. No one dares to come out and say a word — really?”
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26 Dec 2020
“To live with him is stress, stress, stress.”
Tired of her abusive husband, 56-year-old Su Min took the car and left. Her journey made her an icon for China’s unhappy housewives.
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26 Dec 2020
Three nominations and one award!
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23 Dec 2020
The cool-off period policy made me realize that marriage is not a good thing, as there’s a barrier to let you out, but not to let you in. Anything with obstacles for letting you out is not a good thing
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22 Dec 2020
Wang doesn’t know who to blame for his wife’s eventual departure — his mother-in-law, who Wang believed preached to his wife; the police’s dereliction; or himself for reporting his own wife. Worst of all, Wang doesn’t know if she will come back someday.
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8 Dec 2020
Users contacted by Sixth Tone describe themselves in a similar fashion: lonely, introverted, and with low self-esteem. They all appear to feel adrift in China’s fast-changing society.
8 Dec 2020
In China, a sassy AI chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts while redefining the country’s conceptions of romance and relationships. A video breaks down how Xiaoice works, and what happens when it doesn’t.
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2 Dec 2020
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2 Dec 2020
At midnight, after over 10 hrs of trial, Xianzi is finally out. The trial is being adjourned. She said she had requested for open hearing, the jury’s participation, change of judges, and Zhu Jun’s presence for the next trial 🙏
2 Dec 2020
We all are.
2 Dec 2020
Another beautiful moment: a delivery person arrived in the crowds outside of the court with a bunch of warm pastes, shouting to the group ”who is ‘xianzi and her friends’”, whom the buyer requested to send to. The supporters answered “we all are”
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1 Dec 2020
Dezliangz would still talk to herself, saying, “I lost the food … I lost the child.” Though that was many years ago, she seems not to have moved forward, and to live in her own time and trauma.
28 Nov 2020
This is just a wonderful, bittersweet story. How a Bouyei woman, trafficked across China 35 years ago and forced into marriage, found her home. Hard of hearing, she never learned Mandarin. This year, someone recognized her language and a search began.
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28 Oct 2020
Men “feel uncomfortable about a women’s movement, as this is something that doesn’t require their opinion.”
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28 Oct 2020
“First they said there were vaccines and I had high hopes, but then they suddenly said there were none,” says one student. “I don’t want this one year study abroad to end before it even starts.”
27 Oct 2020
Students Bound for COVID Hotbeds Scramble for Unproven Vaccines @SixthTone
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24 Sep 2020
Students were also angry about rising prices at campus supermarkets and dining halls during their lockdown