Tired of trying to learn to read Chinese from stultified lessons in textbooks? Bored by old-timey 成语故事? Try reading modern Chinese stories with up-to-date vocabularies. We provide links to the Chinese texts of the stories we translate into English. Visit https://chinese-stories-english.com

Foot odor gets thief arrested. See more dumb criminal stories translated from Chinese newspapers at https://chinese-stories-english.com/news15-01-08.html, story #9 (with link to the Chinese text).

Ageism is alive and well in China, or at least it was 9 years ago when this newspaper report was published. The translation and a link to the original Chinese text are available at https://www.chinese-stories-english.com/news13-08.html

In old China 社 was a local god's altar. Every few days the locals would gather there to worship & discuss the issues of the day. Eventually "altar meeting" 社会 came to refer to the people who gathered there (i.e., the community) & nowadays the meaning has been further extended to cover society as a whole. So today's term for “socialism” 社会主义 is literally “the church meetings doctrine”. Karl Marx must be spinning in his grave. See https://www.chinese-stories-english.com/ol--time-religion.html