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 ...

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

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 ...

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 these days after Chinese consumers found out the Wahaha water they purchased ...

How did the death of a young stray cat lead to a online wave of grief and outrage over the past few days? It started with fans mourning a beloved Chinese internet celebrity cat, then turned into ...

🔥 A version of this story also appeared in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. The China tour of American Youtube star IShowSpeed (Darren Watkins Jr.) is still echoing on ...

Behind the scandal at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital: the doctor, the trainee, and the letter that took over the Chinese internet. A controversy that has been brewing recently has completely ...

In April 2025, China’s food delivery sector witnessed a somewhat dramatic development, which attracted major attention online, when Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com publicly challenged food delivery ...

This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this story also appears in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. An enormous ...

Russian recruitment ads, China’s censorship, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. Recently, news broke that two Chinese nationals were captured by ...