South China Morning Post - Society

A young Chinese man who has just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from the prestigious Wuhan University is set to embark on a new life as a doctoral student at the same institution. Peng Wenle is not just another ordinary 21-year-old; he was abducted at the age of three in 2008 from outside his parents’ telephone service shop in southern Chin...

A 73-year-old Chinese female entrepreneur has recently become the 22nd passenger of the domestically developed spacecraft CYZ1. On August 8, Huang Xiaochi was officially designated as passenger No 022 for CYZ1, a project by the commercial space start-up InterstellOr. Huang is scheduled to embark on a suborbital mission aboard the spaceship in 2028, reaching the Kármán line, the ...

A former wealthy Chinese student in the US transformed her life into that of a private chef after her family faced bankruptcy, establishing a business that now earns her up to US$118,600 annually. The 31-year-old woman, known by the pseudonym Chengzi, attended the New York Film Academy before completing a master’s degree in Britain. She once lived in downtown Manhattan, aspiring...

A husband in southeastern China has insisted on going Dutch with his wife for 40 years and even installed home surveillance cameras to monitor her; despite this, the wife wants to give their marriage another try. The couple from Fujian province sought assistance from a local mediation TV show as their conflicts escalated. The husband, identified by the surname Li, complained tha...

In some classic Chinese novels and period dramas, women of ancient times would throw an embroidered ball from a balcony to the street to randomly choose whoever caught it as their husband. In the classic novel Journey to the West, published in the 16th century, the father of the main character, Buddhist monk Xuanzang, was chosen by his mother by throwing an embroidered ball. In ...