The low-desire life: why people in China are rejecting high-pressure jobs in favour of ‘lying flat’

It's been dubbed tangping' - shunning tough careers to chill out instead. But how is the Communist party taking the birth of this new counterculture?

Name: Low-desire life.

Age: People - young ones especially - have been rebelling, dropping out, rejecting the rat race for pretty much ever, since the rat race began. But in China, it's becoming more common. On trend, you might say.