By ANGELA JIE WANG, MARGOT LAMBILLIOTTE, MARIA RINCON, NATALIE MEYER and NICO GOUSSarah Peng: A trail-blazing female stand-up comic. (Photo by Nico Gous)She likes spicy food, drinks hot water, and can eat rice three times a day. “Yes, I am 100% made in China,” she readily acknowledged during her talk at TEDxYouth@Suzhou conference in November 2017.So what makes Peng different? She likes to en...

By Michelle Chen, Jimin Suh, Tony Xie and Troels JeppesenThe path of entrepreneurship is a difficult one. The pain and tribulations faced in the field of entrepreneurship frightens most people away from entering the field. However, for Sophie Sun, this feeling of uncertainty and trepidation is exactly what she is seeking in life.Sophie SunAs the 31-year-old entrepreneur likes to say: “Fear is ...

By SIJIA LIOn this morning, white mist rolls through the lush mountaintops of Sichuan Province, China. Birdsong mingles with a piano soundtrack. A young woman in an indigo-dyed blouse, a straw basket in her hand, picks her way through a grove of persimmon trees. Her slim white hand reaches out with a pair of gold scissors and, delicately, snips off a cluster of fruit.A heroine in a historical d...

by Dorina Marlen HellerWhen the train silently approached the station at La Ciotat, the audience broke into a panic. People screamed, running for their lives, fearing that the train would come straight at them, bursting from its screen.This is the story of one of the first-ever film screenings, showing the arrival of a train in a minute-long, silent reel from 1896.The human responses conjured b...

by Alyona RadinaThese beliefs helped Rachel Daydou emerge as the winner of the 2016 Shanghai Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.In her ‘day job’, Daydou is the co-founder and chief business officer of Lihaoma (礼好吗), a mobile gifting app, and a managing member of Startup Grind Shanghai, mentoring startups of French Tech Shanghai. In addition to all that, Rachel teaches and ma...

by Marium KhanGulzat Ahmad excelled at basketball when she was a young girl growing up in Urumqi and Shanghai. But her hoop dreams were dashed by a problem that had nothing to do with her on-court skills. Now a social worker in Shanghai, she is determined to do something to encourage the next generation of young Muslim woman. She has become an entrepreneur who has stepped into the lucrative Isl...