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And rural influencers serve slices of a life many thought lost to China’s breakneck development. Compared with their urban counterparts, rural influencers carve out a unique niche in China’s ...

It is also a convenient way for young Chinese urbanites to indulge in a yearning for a less stressful, vibrant rural life amid the narrowing gap in living standards between urban and rural areas.

Inspired by Chinese vlogger and influencer Li Ziqi, whose videos about life in rural China have earned her 18 million subscribers on YouTube, Liu now uploads weekly vlogs of his days in the mountains.

In China, the distinction between citizens with rural or urban hukou is increasingly seen as arbitrary. In 2008, some Chinese citizens called on the CCP to abolish the system in its entirety.

Zheng Yajun, a mainland-born PhD graduate of the University of Hong Kong, knows from personal experience how difficult it is to break through China’s urban-rural divide. Raised and educated in a ...

Growing numbers of Chinese are escaping urban life for rural peace “The Mountains Are High” examines what is driving people out of Chinese cities to the mountains ...

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Income disparities between rural and urban populations remain a pressing issue in China. According to the NBS, the annual per capita disposable income of rural residents was less than half that of ...

A growing body of work is showing that family life in rural areas is increasingly becoming more similar to family life in urban areas. 4,7,8 According to a Pew Report (2018), marriage rates in ...

The violence of rural life blends with the gravity of Chinese myth in the horror novel ‘Sacrificial Animals’ Kailee Pedersen, author of the horror novel “Sacrificial Animals.” (Garland Quek) ...