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Yating Yang
Yating Yang
Beijing
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.

Celebrated Taiwan singer Jeannie Hsieh, 49, began performing when she was 15 and has faced significant challenges throughout her life, but says she has “a fighting spirit”.

The parents of young primary schoolchildren in China have finally had enough of the extreme bullying behaviour of a boy who persistently kicked, hit, intimidated and insulted his peers.

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An ancient tradition in China by which future brides are adopted by families with a son at a very young age and raised to be a wife still exists today, the Post explains why.

Zhang Weili is a mixed martial arts (MMA) champion from China who fought her way out of a small town to international stardom, gaining celebrity fans along the way, but she allows nothing to distract her.

A man in China who was under pressure from his girlfriend’s parents to buy her a flat filled a suitcase with bank training coupons, which she took to the police thinking he had been conned.

Mainland social media has been captivated by the story of a politician from Thailand who was caught in bed naked with her adopted son, who at the time, was also a monk.

A Chinese couple in their 80s who were once university sweethearts, but parted decades ago, have fallen in love all over again and celebrated a joyful wedding ceremony.

The story of a woman in South Korea who exploded in anger over there being no straw in her drinks order and demanded a cafe manager kneel in apology has sparked outrage on mainland social media.

A Hollywood film which delves into issues regarding Chinese identity, specifically those involving the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, has sparked widespread discussion on social media.

The father of a teenage boy in China, who was given cash to donate blood plasma so many times it cost him his life, is demanding accountability from the company that paid him.

A mother in China who spotted a young girl while visiting a far-off province and decided she was a “perfect wife” for her 27-year-old son, has been jailed along with him for abducting the girl.

A mother in China became so exasperated as she tried to guide her child through his school work that she lashed out in anger and ended up hurting herself.

An economics student from China was chatting happily on the phone with her fiancé in the moments before she became the sixth victim of a multiple stabbing attack at a shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.

A nanny in China has been duped out of a lot of money and left to care for a baby by a couple who claimed they had been bequeathed a massive estate and were going to collect it, then vanished.

A fake online influencer racket in China, which saw trained fake online personalities peddling bogus sob stories to attract followers and sell products, has been broken up by police.

A woman in China who was diagnosed with cancer says she wants to leave behind a massive series of fun and moving cosplay images as memories for her three children and 150,000 online followers.

A young woman who was raised in a landlocked part of rural China and first set eyes on the sea at nine-years-old has made history by becoming the country’s first surfing Olympian. But who is Yang Siqi?

China has been captivated by a delicious new “malatang dish” that threatens to rival the traditional favourite from Sichuan, while making its creator famous.

The star of several popular TV shows in China, who fell from grace after a series of scandals, has been accused of hiding assets so that she does not have to pay firms suing her.

The cost of traditional bride prices and dowries in eastern China has spiralled out of control so officials are pursuing unique policies to address the problem.

The Chinese Ching Ming Festival has seen a growth in the hiring of professional tomb-sweepers and ritual performers by family members who cannot make it to gravesites in China.

Young people looking for love in China are enthusiastically embracing an approach that gets them up on a stage at a well-known tourist location to publicly declare their desires and vie for attention.

A man in China who went missing and was homeless for more than two decades has been reunited with his nephew who spent time and money making him presentable for a family gathering.

An employee with an “iron rice bowl” job in China is being investigated by police after she apparently put a toxic substance in the water of a colleague who was expecting a baby.

The domestic abuse ordeal of an online actress celebrity in China, who infamously said she would “rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle”, has been revealed during divorce proceedings.