6+ hour, 31+ min ago  (1423+ words) Editor's note: In the age of the attention economy, social media has the power to change lives by propelling any ordinary Joe to celebrity status in an instant. But what happens when that 15 minutes of fame ends? Sixth Tone is…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (903+ words) YUNNAN, Southwest China " At a caf" in Kunming, 23-year-old graduate student Liu Ying drinks a tamarind americano. In her cup, bitter coffee beans from Yunnan's famed Pu'er region meet the sweet-and-sour tang of dried local tamarind " a combination that shouldn't…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (413+ words) Ni: What inspired you to start researching Italian coffee bars run by Chinese immigrants? My theoretical framework was still developing at that moment, but the ethnographic research question became crystal clear: Why and how could a long-marginalized immigrant group, often…...