Navigating mainland China's regional archetypes | Following the Yuan

Chinese people have taken genuine pleasure in learning about and debating regional archetypes and stereotypes. Here are 6 of them.

Text & design: Rongrong Zhuge

Editor: Yaling Jiang

Editor’s notes: What’s the point of archetypes and stereotypes? I believe they are essential to our understanding of different human conditions and how environments shape individuals. Within China, the difference is that an archetype is a recognized character type, and stereotypes form later in people’s minds when the archetype …