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Vistopia Roundtable
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01. These People Speak Better Than They Sing 02. Zhu Yingchun: Hey, Have You Ever Seen a “Poop-Shaped Bird”? 03. Part the Fence and See the Flowers 04. Jia Zhangke: Director Jia, Imagining Jia 05. Zhang Yadong: “The Ideal” Reminds Me There Is Somewhere I Need to Go 06. You Look Delicious! 07. All I Want Is a Home with Wi-Fi and Spring Flowers 08. Who Isn't Laid-Back on One Side and Full of Energy on the Other? 09. Yang Zhao: The Most Important Thing for Young People Is Knowing How Vast the World Is 10. After Coming to Vistopia, I Could No Longer See the Ideal 11. Is All Life This Hard, or Only Childhood? 12. Not Established at Thirty—Should You Worry? 13. Editor Zhang Shiyang: After Finishing This Book, I Opened an Account on a Dating Site 14. I Asked the Daoist Master Whether the Post-1990 Generation Was Truly Beyond Saving 15. To Vistopia: My Dear Eighteen-Year-Old 16. Editor Weng Muhan: One Look and I Knew You Were Single 17. They Say Modern People No Longer Believe in Love 18. Young People Who Commute by Slow Train 19. If I Could… I Would Start School Again 20. It Must Be Wonderful to Be a Cat 21. I Asked Chen Danqing Whether This Generation of Idols Simply Wasn't Good Enough 22. Drink Down a Year's Memories in One 23. A Survival Guide to Music Festivals 24. I Don't Want to Go to Work 25. To Young People Who Are Struggling 26. So I Hear You Can't Sleep? 27. Oh No, My Friends and I Can't Sing the Same Songs at Karaoke Anymore 28. Chen Danqing: Seducing the People Who Already Wanted to Come In 29. The Aesthetics of Ghosts and Monsters through a Designer's Eyes 30. Once upon a Bite: All I Ask Is a Bowl of Hot Soup 31. Besides a Case of Sichuan-Pepper Beef Noodles, What Other Bizarre Gifts Have I Received? 32. What Did Li Ao Mean When He Called Himself an Animal Trainer? 33. Why Were the Cartoons of Our Childhood So Good? 34. Luo Yijun: Novelists Are Our Last Line of Defense 35. Addiction Is Not about a Powerful Opponent but a Vulnerable Person 36. I Always Forget to Say Thank You 37. What Small Towns and Big Cities Taught Me 38. WeChat Editor: I Still Have Plenty of Hair and Plenty More Posts in Me 39. 1998–2018: Listen Slowly, and Don't Cry, Part I 40. Wang Ruiyun: Contemporary Art Shoves Life Right before Our Eyes 41. 1998–2018: Listen Slowly, and Don't Cry, Part II 42. Touch the Radiator—Ah, the North Is Wonderful 43. In 2018, We Learned to Say Goodbye 44. Hello, Stranger 45. Wanwan: Curating Is Like Translating 46. You Are Listening to the Final Vistopia Radio Episode of 2018 47. A Reading List from the Editors of Imaginist 48. The Graduate Entrance Exam: A Game for the Brave 49. Don't Know What to Eat? Try the Convenience Store 50. How Is It Lunar New Year Again Already? 51. After Coming to Vistopia, I Can See the Ideal Again 52. A Wellness and Survival Guide for Young Urbanites 53. Twenty Years Later, Do We Have the Courage to Say “I'll Support You”? 54. Story FM's Kou Aizhe and Peng Han: Being Misunderstood Is the Fate of Anyone Who Expresses Themselves 55. Editor Hu Hao: I Can Take Photos Too—So Why Is He the Master? 56. Lunar New Year Is Coming—Am I the Only One Who Wants to Go Home? 57. Bonus | Happy Lunar New Year—May You Be Free and Open! 58. Happy Birthday, Mu Xin 59. When My Mind Is in Turmoil, I Think of Philosophy 60. Mom, Let's Travel Together Next Lunar New Year 61. A Musical Set Menu of Dialects 62. What You Should Know before “Checking In” at the Forbidden City 63. Riding a Bicycle beneath Blue Skies, Green Grass, White Clouds, and a Clear Breeze 64. Li Pili: Eat Well, Love Well 65. I Am Myself First, and Only Then Anyone Else 66. Spring and Summer Favorites 67. Shengnan: I Want to Open a Dumpling Shop for My Mother 68. Poetry, Freedom, and Daydreams 69. Chen Sa: If I Didn't Play Piano, I Might Be a Photographer 70. Collecting: A Humble Way to Prolong Childhood 71. Editor Baoku: I Have a Special Talent for Approaching Stray Dogs 72. My Taste Memories of Chaoshan, Guangdong 73. When I Couldn't Find Kaka, I Wanted to Quit on the Spot 74. Do We Still Need “Sweet Nothings” in This Age? 75. After Listening, I Don't Feel Quite So Lonely 76. Kong Yalei: Life Is Weather; Life Is Food 77. Duozhuayu's Uncle: Secondhand Books Turn Me into a Detective Today's Special: Don't Be Obsessed with a Single Day 78. Dusa: My Five Years in Musical Theater 79. A Contemporary Office Worker's Guide to Self-Rescue 80. From Primary-School Teacher to Audio Editor 81. My Taste Memories of Zhengzhou and Luoyang 82. Favorite Things for the Desk 83. How to Begin Your First Pop-Up Journal 84. I Want a Pikachu to Level Up and Fight Monsters with Me 85. What Happened to Three Taiwanese Women Singers Who Refused to Stay in Their Lane? 86. Editor GY: I Once Dreamed of Becoming a Math Teacher 87. I Can't Live without My Phone, but I Miss the Time before Phones 88. I Want to Hear Your Summer 89. The Gaokao Story Store 90. Zheng Butou: Why Has I Love My Family Stayed with Us for Twenty-Five Years? 91. My Mother Must Love Me, but She Doesn't Like Me 92. One Year after Graduation, How Are You? 93. Yushan Fankuan: Summer Is Only a Dream Dreamed by a Watermelon 94. Raise a Glass and Talk about Life 95. Bonus | Because He's Jay Chou 96. My Third Year as a Working Adult 97. Mr. Woohoo's Atypical Summer Away from Home 98. Don't Give Up on the Beauty of Music So Easily! 99. A Girl, a Bear, and Eternal Love 100. Zhuang Huijia: Through Hutongs, Forests, and Night Markets, Saying Goodbye to Summer with Scent 101. Sorry, My Threshold for Exhaustion Is Pretty Low 102. Stories from Long Journeys 103. Haiyao: If I Hadn't Studied Abroad, I Might Never Have Left Zhongguancun 104. Longform Reporter Fang Fang: Everyone Loves Seeing the Successful Fall on Hard Times 105. Xu Zidong: Youth Inevitably Belongs to Literature 106. Starting Over Wouldn't Be Better Than Now, but… 107. Holidays Are Short; Music Endures 108. The World between Us and Evil 109. Ding Wei: Twenty Years Later, I Can Finally Do What I Wanted Then 110. My Taste Memories of Wuhan and Chibi 111. Are There Ghosts? Could You Turn Off the Light for Me? 112. Autumn and Winter Favorites 113. Bonus | Zhan and Pang on the Things in Life That Cannot Be Compromised 114. Urban Exploration: One Step into Twenty-Five Years Ago 115. Cheng Bi: My Taste Memories of Binzhou and Tokyo 116. Editor Luo Danni: Who Will Record Our Uneventful Lives? 117. Zhou Yijun: My Taste Memories of Shanghai 118. Xu Yingjin: If Aristotle Were Alive, He Would Certainly Study Blockchain 119. My Taste Memories of Harbin 120. You Are Listening to the Final Vistopia Radio Episode of 2019 121. Ten Editors Recommend a New Year's Reading List 122. Wang Ruiyun: Relax before Art Like a Child 123. When Having Children Is No Longer Compulsory | My Way 124. Happy Lunar New Year—May You Be Fresh and Bright! 125. Bonus | 2020, Please Answer 126. Through the Long Winter, Awaiting the Real Arrival of Spring 127. Missing My “Urban Refuge” 128. Has Freelancing Made Me Freer? | My Way 129. Bonus | Are You Watching Someday or One Day Too? 130. The Madness and Reality I Recorded on the China–Myanmar Border 131. Cultivating Good Taste through Niche Apps 132. Xian Yu: Letting Myself Go in a Life beyond “Milk Coffee” 133. Under Lockdown, Everyday Life Resists the Length of Time 134. What Studying Abroad Taught Me | My Way 135. Bonus | Calling Wei'an: Student Life in Pandemic London 136. My Taste Memories of Xiamen and Ningde 137. Naturally, I Fell in Love with a Girl 138. Guoqing: After Nine Years in Education in Beijing, I've Never Been This Idle 139. How Are the People Still Running Bookstores? | My Way 140. One-Third of 2020 Has Already Passed 141. My Taste Memories of Xiangtan and Huaihua 142. Editor Mei Xinyi: Working on the Imaginist Translation Series Made Me Realize How Ordinary I Am, Part I 143. Editor Mei Xinyi: Working on the Imaginist Translation Series Made Me Realize How Ordinary I Am, Part II 144. Most of the Time, I Seem to Be Living a Secondary Life | My Way 145. Parents and Children Are, Fundamentally, People Relating to People 146. Brand-New Stories from the One-Way Street Editorial Department 147. Editor Yang Quanqiang: The More Unusual Your Problems, the More Unusual the Books You Read 148. No Spine Leaves the Office Healthy | My Way 149. Duan Zhiqiang: The Self-Cultivation of a Historical Voice Actor 150. Baicha: Just as I Was Sinking, a Cat Pulled Me Up 151. Hedgehog: The Big Band Stage Was Where We Found Our Answer 152. Editor Yang Le: Children's Books That Start by “Lecturing” Scare Me 153. Memories of the Gaokao during SARS in 2003 and COVID in 2020 | My Way 154. Brother Fei: In That Moment, I Heard Beautiful Notes from an Alpine Peak in 1818 Music Only | Brother Fei's Music Box 155. Su Dan: Innocence and Temperament in My Urban and Rural Memories of the 1970s and 1980s 156. At Thirty, Accepting That an Ordinary Life Can Also Be Happy | My Way 157. Editor Feng Qian: Nordic Literature Is Cold, Yet It Holds a Special Warmth 158. Bonus | Mei Xinyi: Why Is the Third Reich Trilogy Worth Reading? 159. Re-TROS: Making Music Isn't So Romantic—We Just Rehearse More 160. Hidden-Gem Creators on Bilibili 161. Look at That Cloud—Doesn't It Resemble a Story Idea? 162. Bonus | Chiao Yuan-Pu on Joe Hisaishi: Music Gives Us Courage to Face the Future 163. A New Generation of Parents: Let Children “Corrupt” the World! | My Way 164. Music for Autumn 165. Death Was Never My First Choice; Living Was 166. Dajuzi: There Is Always a Greater Loneliness in the World 167. Hang a Fiery Painting in a Cool Living Room, and Curating Begins 168. I Have Wrestled with Myself for a Long Time | My Way 169. Music Has Saved All of Us during Aimless Periods 170. My Anxiety and What It Created 171. By My Calculation, Old Age Doesn't Look Promising 172. I Wasn't Buying Clothes; I Was Buying Happiness | My Way 173. Beyond Entertainment, How Many Possibilities Does Animation Hold? 174. Professor Zhu, You've Published Another Book That Wastes Paper 175. Editor Xiaoshuo: Shall I Perform Some Stand-Up for Everyone? 176. How Did You Survive the Hardest Days of 2020? | My Way 177. You Are Listening to the Final Vistopia Radio Episode of 2020 178. Liang Jie: CityWalk—Discovering Hidden Life within One Square Kilometer 179. Bright Sadness: How to Recognize Emotions and Live with Them 180. Depression Is a Secret We Share, Part I 181. Depression Is a Secret We Share, Part II 182. We All Have Moments of Insecurity 183. Lunar New Year Special: One Signature Song Each! 184. Yoshii Shinobu: I Discovered How Fragile the “Everyday” Is 185. Editor Weixi: Possibly the Best Craftsperson in Publishing 186. Peace in Life and Death: What I Learned in a Hospice Ward 187. Who Lives in a Hospice Ward? | Journey into Hospice 01 188. Editor Qiaqia: I Suspect I Have an Attention Deficit 189. Who Volunteers in a Hospice Ward? | Journey into Hospice 02 191. Popular Taste as an Invisible Tyranny 192. What Do They Discuss at a Death Café? | Journey into Hospice 03 193. Editor Zhazong: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Led Me into Korean Literature 194. Why Must We Talk about Death? | Journey into Hospice 04 195. Norman: Cities Distance Us from Things That Are Raw—Music, for Example 196. What I Realized in the Dark Experience Room, Part I 197. Why Do We Need Hospice Care? | Journey into Hospice 05 198. What I Realized in the Dark Experience Room, Part II 199. I'll Be There for You: Time Flows, Friends Remain 200. If Something Doesn't Happen Soon, My Life and I Will Both Gather Dust 201. A Feast on an Archaeological Dig 202. Zhang Gasong: Grandmother Guards the Last of My Homesickness 203. Three Unconventional Straight Men Talk about Life 204. Xiaojuan & Residents of the Valley: Has Life Worn You Out? 205. Korea Has Literature, Part I 206. Korea Has Literature, Part II 207. From Today On, Care about Grain and Vegetables 208. “How Dull Would Life Be without Regrets?” 209. After Coming to Vistopia, I Finally Had Time for My Family 210. Driving the World with Children: Another Possibility for Education 211. Help Me Up—I Still Have to Earn Money for My Cat 212. Editor Liko: Subtle and Delicate Moments When Japanese-Drama Lines Strike Home 213. Lü Chen: If My Humanities Videos on Douyin Don't Make You Laugh, I Lose 214. After Coming to Vistopia, I Keep Swinging between Lying Flat and Pulling Myself Together 215. Auditing Classes, Interning, and Volunteering: People and Events Connected by Wonderful Coincidences, Part I 216. Auditing Classes, Interning, and Volunteering: People and Events Connected by Wonderful Coincidences, Part II 217. homegrown: Good Music from Musicians' Comfort Zones 218. Twenty Years Later: Three Classmates Born in the 1970s Look Back on College and Social Change 219. Thank You for Crossing Mountains to Meet Us 220. A Mother Trapped in Time and a Family That Wasn't, Part I 221. A Mother Trapped in Time and a Family That Wasn't, Part II 222. A Mother Searches for Herself within the Rules, Part I 223. A Mother Searches for Herself within the Rules, Part II 224. I've Carried These Things in My Bag for Fifteen Years | Dongdongqiang Is Here 225. Whatever Costume I Wear, I Give It Everything | Liu Yang Is Here 226. Zhu Yujie × Yang Yuanyuan: Has Smartphone Photography Lowered the Threshold of Art? 227. Liu Zichao × Wukong: Healing an Irretrievable Hometown with a Time Capsule 228. Han Xia × Derrick: Technique Is the Least Important Part of Photography 229. You Are Listening to the Final Vistopia Radio Episode of 2021 230. Pang Ying Returns: Why Start a New Side Hustle That Makes No Money? 231. Editor EG: A Humanities Student's Self-Rescue 232. A Guide to Visiting the Hospital without Panic: Dr. Wang Has Some Tips 233. After Coming to Vistopia, I Never Wanted to Do Design Again 234. Bonus | Lunar New Year Special: “I Am No Longer a Lonely Star” 235. Hot Pot, Coffee, and Mahjong: Two Former Colleagues' New Life in Chengdu 236. Distant People and Good News Concern Me Too | Calling Clearing Up, Good Morning 237. The Great 2022 Adventure: Some Truths from Our Colleagues 238. Please Let Some Publishers Remain Socially Anxious | And Yet the Books: Behind the Scenes 239. A Child-Friendly Art Museum That Healed Even More Adults 240. Why Do Some People Find Jobs Effortlessly during Peak Hiring Season? 241. How Deep Are Our Misconceptions about Preventing Sexual Abuse? | Protecting Girls 242. Editor Hu Yunbiao: No Golden Nest Compares to a Bird's Nest Far Away 243. White Paper Band × Shi Ce: “Dreaming of Sun, Sand, and an Island, Running to Embrace You” 244. Duan Zhiqiang × Liang Jie: Kind People, Protect Your Emotions | Bonus 245. Muma × Huang Xiangli: “Love Seeks Life in Death; Love Weeps and Laughs” 246. Environmentalism Is Fine, but It Needn't Disrupt Normal Life 247. Editor Yang Jingwu: When Making a Book Goes Smoothly, Something Is Wrong 248. A Letter Arrives at the Beginning of Summer | Little Balcony Mailbox 249. A Psychologist and a Doctor Discuss Staying Healthy in Body and Mind 250. After Coming to Vistopia, I Decided to Return to School 251. Revisiting 100 Career Confessions: I Am Here; 2019 Is Over There 252. The Necessity of Staying Cool and Comfortable in Summer | Little Balcony Playlist 253. After Making This Psychology Program, I Feel Capable Again 254. “Comrade and Lover” Is the Romantic Ideal of Our Age | Li Xuan × Chao 255. New to Work, Reckless in Life 256. Shanghai, One Month after “Reopening” 257. Ren Ning × Qiangqiang: In Chengdu, Pursuing Freedom 258. Happy Graduation—May You Be Free and Open | Little Balcony Mailbox 259. Eavesdropping on the Next Table at a Café, and Nearly… 260. Fuchsia Dunlop: Tolerance and Prejudice in a Food Conversation between Two Chengdu Souls 261. Life Feels Stuck; I Want to Become a Tree 262. Editor Chen Xiaoqi: Our Two-Person Publishing House Supports a Family of Four 263. Yang Zhao: Are We a Generation Both Overmobilized and Overrepressed? 264. A Story of Being Saved by a Cat 265. Zhang Yanqi: Freestyle Is When the Brain Crashes but the Mouth Can't Stop 266. “Be Someone Who Has Side Effects on Society” 267. Reform the Workplace, Starting with Flexible Work 268. Is a Music Therapist Just “Someone Who Sings”? 269. After Leaving Vistopia, I Sold Luxury Homes in Britain 270. First Reveal: Vistopia × One-Way Street—Two Cultural Companies Talk Unconventional Design 271. Wen Na: Want to Meet Some Gods? The Wild Kind 272. Editor Ma Buyun: Forests, Glaciers, and Whales—Books Need Images 273. Maodong of Harmless Mostly: Interest in Stand-Up Is Ultimately a Love of Expression 274. Xu Tao of The East Is Read: Don't Pack Work Too Tightly; Life Needs Room to Breathe 275. After Leaving Vistopia, I Went to Shenzhen to Watch People “Make Money” 276. Editor Tiexiong: Raise Your Voice against Injustice—Who Says Comics Are Childish? 277. “May Your Eyes Stay Bright; May You Have a Good Winter” | Little Balcony Mailbox 278. Kuso: A Few Years in Kyoto Changed My Sense of Time Zhou Qimo: Asking for My Aunt—How Exactly Does Sweet-and-Sour Pork Hold Its Sauce? | Beyond the Kitchen I Want to Jog All the Way to Welcome Thirty | The Unideal Editorial Department A Golden Guide to Wandering the City | Vol de Nuit “May Your Eyes Stay Bright; May You Have a Good Winter” | Vistopia Radio Winter Special: Enter the Roundabout of Memory and Meet First Love Again | Let's Elaborate Talking about Museum-Hopping Makes Me Happy | Natural History The Past Is Fresh; the Future Is Nostalgic | Sooner or Later When Will the Next Good Thing Arrive? I Can't Wait! | Comedians' Chat 279. Five Years, Two Thousand Photos, and a Special Subway Reading List 280. You Are Listening to the Final Vistopia Radio Episode of 2022 | Fifth Anniversary 281. Dada Band: For Everyone Who Has Regained Confidence in Life 282. Xiaolu and Liang Haiyuan on What Makes a Stand-Up Solo Show 283. Yoshii Shinobu: Eight Square Meters in Tokyo, for Those Rebuilding a Life 284. After Leaving Vistopia, I Went into Animation 285. I Am a Sociologist; I Usually Get Drunk First as a Sign of Respect 286. Spring Is Here—More Truths from Listeners and Colleagues | Little Balcony Mailbox 287. After Disappearing for Eighteen Months, I Recorded a Southern Sichuan Town's Joys and Sorrows on My Phone 288. Musician Liu Shuang: The Moment You Try to Be Sincere Is the Beginning of Insincerity 289. Lumi Liu Min × Zhang Yueran: Who Is Suppressing Women's Creativity? 290. Editor Chen Xiying: Beyond Ryuichi Sakamoto, These Artists Are Treasures Too 291. Springtime in Childhood Had So Many Delicious Things 292. Economist Liang Jie on the Possibility of Early Retirement 293. Just Back Last Week—Why Is Your Thailand So Different from Mine? 294. We Planned a Journey to the West Book Launch in Water Curtain Cave 295. Everything Everywhere: Wandering through Other People's Time Zones 296. Once You Stop Working, You Never Want to Work Again 297. Find Time and Space to “Waste Your Life” | Live Recording 298. What Does “Mom's Cooking” Actually Taste Like? 299. Forget Mayday—even Museum Tickets Are Becoming Impossible to Get 300. Jidi: When You're Young, You Leap into the Enormous City—and Then What? 301. What Happened to the Dyed Chicks We Bought as Children? 302. Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun: Everyone Was Poor, but Cultural Life Continued | Bonus 303. Musician Jude: I've Said Enough Today—Go Listen to My Songs 304. After Leaving Vistopia, I Came Back 305. We Went to a Temple to Ask What It Means to “Let Go of Attachment” 306. Quietly Losing It Online under the Name momo 307. Who Is Writing the Story of Our Generation? 308. Living Well Starts with Finding a Recipe 309. Just Back Last Week—I Rediscovered My Enthusiasm for Work in France 310. Degrees Are Losing Value, So Must I Get a PhD? 311. After Barbie, We Tried to Answer Some Existential Questions 312. Yang Zhao × Wang Qing: How Can We Live Well without Working? 313. When the World Feels as If It Is Sinking, I Read The Sixth Extinction 314. We Passed the Exams, Got the Degree, Married, Had Children—and Then What? 315. Ma Ka-fai: Find a Person and a Sentence to Be Your Lifelong Compass 316. Can the Hardships of City Life Be Solved by Farming in the Country? 317. Just Back Last Week—I Found Another Kind of Ease in a Mongolian Temple 318. From Diving Uncles to Yu Meijing Cream: Why Are People Here So Happy? 319. I Can't Keep Performing the Role of a Socialized Adult 320. When an Office Worker Decides to “Pause for Maintenance” 321. Photographing Clouds and Sunsets Is My Smallest Cultural Act as an Individual 322. Qi Jinnian: The Bed Is Not the Grave of Youth—Exams Are 323. Starting with Bookstores: Check-Ins and Conversations Today | Bonus 324. Waina × Cheng Qing: When You Cannot See Yourself, Learn to “Sing Your Own Song” 325. Tang Nuo × Jiang Fangzhou: I Am Certain Middle Age Is Worth Living 326. Hike, Climb, and Dance to Reclaim Control of the Human Body 327. It's Only a Concert—Why Are You Crying? 328. From Taipei to Beijing: The Fantastic Drift of an Unrefined Woman of Letters 329. Dongdongqiang × Yang Dayi: Hello, Friend—Welcome Aboard This Midlife Crisis 330. Losing Weight by Shared Bike and Raising Children with ChatGPT | Where Did the Money Go This Year? 331. Back from a Meditation Retreat, the Year Looks Much Better | Year-End Stories 2023 332. Gu Xiang × Shao Yihui: Forget Grand Ambitions—Simply Living Is Hard Enough 333. How Do You Find Your Vocation? 334. Photographing Today's Triviality Is a Major Gift to Your Future Self 335. Can Women of Our Generation Live More Selfishly? 336. Is Finding a Reliable Hairdresser Harder Than Finding a Partner? 337. One Spring Festival Gala Line Each: “Palace Jade Liquor, ______?” 338. Looking Back, Marriage Was Never Compulsory 339. This Lunar New Year, I Became the Adult Organizing Everything 340. Liu Zhizhi on What It Means to “Do Something Larger Than Yourself” 341. Reunited in Spring, Our Days Deserve to Be Written Large 342. Spring Would Be Lovely If I Weren't Allergic to Pollen 343. Listening with Peng Tan: Fixing the Cassette Was Like Fixing a Time Machine 344. Kong Dashan: One Year after Journey to the West, I Wrote a New Poem 345. After This Event, I Decided to Become an Adult Who Doesn't Spoil the Fun 346. When an Idealist Wants to Win for Once 347. Cheng Qing × Yuan Changgeng: Why Are Young People Already Making Wills? | Bonus 348. Liu Fei × Guo Xiaohan: A Guide to Avoiding Music-Festival Traps 349. The Creators of To the Wonder: Even the Grassland Has an Echo 350. Edward Lam: “Culture” Is a Journey That Never Ends 351. What Does Old Age Mean, and How Do We Communicate with Older People? 352. Just Back Last Week: Japan and Korea Are No Holiday for Spontaneous Types 353. Bai Yicong × Duan Zhiqiang: Every Speck of Historical Dust Has a Name | Bonus 354. Dad Takes the Kids—What Could Go Wrong? 355. Are Even Dogs Repressed in Japan? Travel with an Anthropologist 356. Young Friends, What Are You Panicking About? 357. Going to Work Is a Giant Scam, and I've Learned Fraud Prevention 358. Yuan Changgeng × Xiaojia: Accept the Collapse of Your Persona and Life Gets Happier 359. Is a Film by a Woman Director Necessarily Feminist? 360. The World Is So Vast—Do You Still Want to See It? 361. How Can We Live More Clearly and Authentically when Technology Is Out of Control? 362. Just Back Last Week: Who Eats Plain Noodles in Datong? 363. Spirit Summoning, House Cleansing, and Nail Cutting: How Wild Is Young People's Mystical World? 364. I Give Up Continuously and Love Life Intermittently 365. Can Women of Our Generation Feel More Deserving? 366. Coffee by Day, Drinks by Night, Tea in the Afternoon—What Will You Have? 367. Escape Is Also a Choice: Let Some People Take Control of Their Lives First 368. Talking about Food Together in Autumn Is Simply Wonderful 369. Just Back Last Week: An Old-School Intellectual's Walking Route through Xi'an 370. Three Years after Three Years—I Was Trapped by Transitional Labor 371. Sudden Moments of Innocence 372. After Enduring Hardship for No Reason, Even Relaxation Feels Shameful 373. The Creators of Women's World: We Will Meet, and We Will Meet Again 374. Goodbye, Autumn: Everyday Life Is Where Miracles Happen 375. No More Pretending—Story Club Was My Literary Education 376. Just Back Last Week: An Unexpected Journey through the Balkans 377. I Thought It Was Only a Matter of Having a Baby 378. What Is Left to Say about Love? 379. Telling Young People to Work Harder Simply Doesn't Work Anymore 380. My First New Year's Resolution: Have an Easier Year! 381. Answer Time's Questions through Existence Itself | Year-End Stories 2024 382. Happy New Year—May We Have Courage and Luck 383. Not Reading Means Uncultured? Our Pride and Prejudice 384. Be a Precious Fellow Traveler, Expressing Yourself Honestly in Comics and Words 385. The Great 2024 Adventure: Some Truths from Our Colleagues 386. The Evolution of Valentine's Gifts: Romance at Twenty, “Practicality” at Thirty 387. The World Says “No Record Found”; I Want My Words to Prove You Were Here 388. Work Paused! I'm Going to Make Music 389. A Normal World Begins by Talking Normally about Menstruation 390. Just Back Last Week: Who Can Visit Yunnan without Going a Little Wild? 391. Zhou Yijun × Lan Zhenzhen: Always Dare to Venture; Always Be in Your Golden Age 392. Me, My Bipolar Disorder, and My Life 393. Together in Spring: Health Comes First; Everything Else Comes Second 394. Must Today's Workers Deliberately Practice Resting? 395. You Think You're Choosing a Pot, but You're Choosing How to Live 396. The Opposite of Anxiety Is Specificity—What Is the Opposite of Climate Anxiety? 397. Birdwatching, Cooking, and Journaling: Supporting Yourself in a World That Breaks Promises 398. After Leaving Vistopia, Living without Making Anything the Center 399. A Minor Operation Leads to a Conversation about the Body, Family, and Control 400. Let's Talk about Menopause: Misunderstood and Overlooked 401. Trauma and Reconstruction: How Does a Younger Generation Face Hope and Disappointment? 402. Is Literature Still a Way We Construct Ourselves? 403. Fatherly Love Is Silent and So Am I—Is Father's Day Destined to Be Ignored? 404. Just Back Last Week: Stepping into One Thousand and One Nights in Uzbekistan 405. Who Craved the Lychees of Chang'an? The Truth behind the Galloping Courier 406. Money and Attention Are Our “Votes” | Midyear Stories 407. Three Years On, Who Is Still Waiting for This Documentary about Books? 408. Our Elders Were Children Once; They Only Wanted an Ordinary Life 409. Wrestling with the Self: To Be Human Is to Be Traumatized 410. From Blind Boxes to Character Merchandise, These Trinkets Give Me Emotional Value 411. Literature Is a City's Most Secret Travel Guide 412. Just Back Last Week: Even the Arctic Isn't Cool Anymore 413. The LifeJourney: Twenty Years—See You at the Next Crossroads 414. Between Silence and Expression: How Does a Younger Generation Observe Life? 415. The Seconds of Video You Scroll Past Are Their Everyday Lives across Generations 416. Life Needs Moments of Illumination—Like Witnessing a New Invention 417. Games Are Child's Play? Our Misconceptions and Prejudices 418. After Listening to This Program, My Relationship with My Family Actually Improved 419. When the Climate Goes Haywire, How Do We Protect Body and Mind? 420. Wu Bi × Ding Yiteng: Strange—Why Is Sleeping in a Wuzhen Theater So Restful? 421. Back to the Age of Correspondence—Thankfully, You Are Here to Talk 422. Is There a More Correct Choice in Life? 423. After Thirty, the Question “How Should a Person Exist?” Always Appears 424. Demon Slayer: Why Does So Much Evil Begin with Love? 425. Beyond Feature Films, What Else Can Animation Be? 426. I Am a Vocational Student: Another Kind of Youth in an Age of Universal Degrees 427. I Declare That Travel Gave Me This Year's Feeling of Being Alive 428. Division Has Begun; Connection Is More Precious | Year-End Stories 2025 429. How Do We “Align the Level of Detail” in Intimate Relationships? 430. The Old Age I Want to Build: Money to Spend, Things to Do, People to Love 431. What Conditions of Our Time Lie behind Our Psychological Struggles? 432. Generational Conflict: Is the Younger Generation Destined to Be Misunderstood? 433. The Flavor of Lunar New Year: What Was the Holiday Like under the Planned Economy? 434. Listen to Music on the Way Home—Have a Pleasant Journey 435. When Marriage Is No Longer Compulsory, What Other Forms Can Intimacy Take? 436. Just Back Last Week: A Cultural Worker's Notes from Penang 437. Zhou Yijun × Qiu Yuwei: Learning to Settle Ourselves This Spring 438. A Humanities Graduate Who Keeps Quitting Decides to Record Her Grandmother's Life 439. Women Writers' Spring Gathering: Honored to Hold the Era Back a Little 440. An Editor after Ten Years: There Is Nothing Noble about Reading! 441. Stay at a Tech Giant Long Enough and Life Becomes Another Deliverable 442. After Seven Years in Europe, I Learned to “Make a Hometown” for Myself 443. Yang Suqiu × Yuan Changgeng: How Ordinary People Became Who They Are over the Past Decade 444. Making Time Tangible, One Stitch at a Time 445. We Throw Away So Much after Buying It—What Remains Long-Term? 446. From Love to Work, Why Is It Harder to Leave the Worse It Gets? 447. From Novelty to Fatigue: Did Podcasts Change, or Did We? 448. How Can Our Overloaded Brains Find Calm Again? 449. With “Cyber-Diagnosis” Everywhere, Can We Live without Constantly Reacting? 450. Sometimes Being a “Pure Hater” Gives Us Energy to Love | Midyear Stories 2026 Yang Zhao: In the AI Age, What Must Humans Never Surrender? | Letters from the Human World 01 451. Humanities Graduates, Scholars, and Programmers: Are We Already Living in Different AI Eras? If We Cannot Leave Our Environment, How Can We Still Grow Well? | Letters from the Human World 02 452. What Cats Have Taught Us Treating Work as So Important Is Only Two Hundred Years Old | Letters from the Human World 03 453. As Old Gender Scripts Loosen, How Can Women Reinvent Life? 454. Liu Qing: Antarctica Changed How I Understand Humanity | Nature Ahead