China has a thriving gaming culture with far-reaching impact, not just on pop culture, but also on language – even those who are not into the world of gaming with inevitably use language associated ...

Ruixin is a Leiden University graduate, specializing in China and Tibetan Studies. As a cultural researcher familiar with ...

The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on Chinese social media since it ...

Trending in China This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this ...

What’s in your water? Would a water by any other name taste as good? That’s the main gist of the topic that’s been trending ...

A Love Never Lost: The Historical Drama That Took Five Years (and a Run-In with Censors) to Finally Air The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on ...

A press release regarding the investigation into the RYB Education abuse allegations is currently gaining much attention on Chinese social media. Here is a translation provided by What’s on Weibo. F ...

While English-language media describe China’s social credit system as a Black Mirror-like authoritarian implementation, Chinese social media users seem to focus more on the advantages than the burdens ...

W hatever possessed the female driver of a Land Rover to go against traffic, cut in line, and assault another driver? A recent incident in Qingdao, Shandong, has gone viral on Weibo and other Chinese ...

China’s number one hotpot chain has quietly raised its prices after its post-coronacrisis reopening, much to the dissatisfaction of hotpot-loving netizens: “While my wages have gone down, Haidilao’s ...

In recent years, China’s netizens have been paying closer attention to so-called “nepo babies”—the children of the rich and powerful whose success often seems tied more to family connections than to ...