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Yating Yang
Reporter, People and Culture
Yating is a Beijing-based culture reporter at the Post. Previously, she worked for CCTV-6, covering international film and culture. Her journalistic expertise includes pop culture, entertainment industry, gender equality, education, workplace discrimination, and social welfare.
Yating is a Beijing-based culture reporter at the Post. Previously, she worked for CCTV-6, covering international film and culture. Her journalistic expertise includes pop culture, entertainment industry, gender equality, education, workplace discrimination, and social welfare.
Areas of Expertise:
Society, culture and politics
Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
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Indonesian island renowned for parties and chilling turns holiday spot for fitness-mad travellers who seek ‘military-style’ boot camps.
Graduate from top US university keeps filming as wife gets emergency treatment for severe bleeding; even adds advert voice-over during recording.
Millennial parents turn to role reversal and facing the consequences methods to instil sense of self-responsibility in their children.
Seasonal festival rituals aim to promote agricultural abundance, include consumption of special food, striking of symbolic ox.
While festive traditions remain very much alive, young people are increasingly finding celebratory solace in AI friends and electronic goods.
More than a kitchen staple, garlic is revered as a ‘divine herb’; boasts 3,000-year legacy in medicine, rituals, home protection.
Deng says she has had strong business instinct from young age; opened store selling educational products after university graduation.
Nation’s Olympic diving darling marks her move into adulthood by showcasing photographs which cast her in a new light.
So-called doll mummies create mainland market worth US$1.4 billion; say toy companions of ‘emotional support’; even ‘smell’ like their owners.
As trust in traditional dating techniques declines, people place ads detailing selling points of ex-partners in ‘second-hand market’.
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