For five years, Alice Zheng, a former bank loan reviewer, followed the path expected of many young Chinese: securing a stable job and striving for middle-class comfort in the megacity Shenzhen.But after years of long hours, rigid corporate hierarchies and mounting stress left her physically and emotionally exhausted, she quit in 2021.Since then, the 36-year-old has lived in Yunnan province and the Yangtze river city of Jiujiang, taking advantage of low costs in smaller cities and sluggish...