Apps Offer Chinese a Path to the Forbidden

Millions of young Chinese are plunging enthusiastically into the world of social contact apps, often location-based and with a hookup element, a dozen people said in interviews. “On the one hand there’s the new technology, and on the other hand there’s sexuality and desire, and these two are coming together and producing new possibilities,” said Song Shaopeng, a scholar of Marxism and history at Renmin University of China in Beijing. Read more