Category: Life

The dance floor beating incident twenty years ago

Many years ago, shortly after arriving in Changsha, I had heard a legend. Said a young man, to avenge his…

On my way to escape, all I could think about was death

When I first met Qian Yinghua at the hospital, she was walking in the hallway, her white hair disheveled and…

Five Northerners, a day in the life of China’s “Yashi”

Preface Sapeur is a non-mainstream cultural group that pursues pleasure, although most of them have an unstable life. Sapeurs are…

A deadlock in the property rights of a courtyard

When you open a map of Beijing, the Second Ring Road is like an official seal placed on its side,…

Memoirs of Wang Xiaodu, an old Red Guard in the capital

Mr. Medicine is a learned, storytelling, good bragging native of Beijing, bluffing people move to quote the scriptures. “I’m not…

Qi Lianfang, the “Great Embezzler” of the Cultural Revolution

At the intersection near the People’s Liberation Army Court in Beijing, a 90-year-old gentleman with glasses is seen every day,…

Demon-possessed lovers

She was lying on the bed, with a cat lying at her feet. She looked beautiful to me, with her…

Farewell, the home of Chongqing Eighteen Steps

1 In 1939, when Chen Zhibi fled to Chongqing with her grandmother, she was just a 10-year-old girl. In her…

In another 30 years, it is still necessary to be a soldier to fight the flood

Wang was one of those who witnessed the moment the Yangtze River dike broke in Jiujiang in 1998. At 13:00…

Gao Qinrong: 18 Years of Grievances of a Former Xinhua News Agency Reporter

Introduction Gao Qinrong, who worked as a journalist for Xinhua News Agency’s Shanxi Branch “Journalist Observation” magazine, was arrested in…