As the company eyes an IPO, how much longer will Kuaishou be the go-to short video platform for China's rural population? Dong Yu has worked for a local piano manufacturer for over 25 years. Living in ...

This weekend, as Beijing emerged from its post-Spring Festival torpor, the Chinese Communist Party decided it would be a good time to mess with everyone by casually dropping a hint that we all better ...

Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what's going on? Toward the end of every year, when China’s magazines, newspapers, and online ...

A Tibetan boy from Litang has been catapulted to internet fame in recent weeks It’s been a month since Tibetan boy Ding Zhen first hit social media, but discussions over him and every aspect of his ...

LGBTQ+ activists have repeatedly attempted to use China's courts to challenge homophobic policies and behavior in recent years A 20-year-old Chinese university student has sued academic book publisher ...

Louis Cha (known by the pen name Jin Yong), a legendary writer reknowned for his work in the historical wuxia genre of kung fu heroes, has passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 94. Though relatively ...

To be honest, my personal experience with Halloween is limited, and not quite typical — my only direct experience with the holiday came when I was working in Washington, D.C., and got to trick or ...

Some bars in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and China’s other big cities are taking coronavirus confinement in their stride. With many people holed up indoors due to the outbreak of Covid-19, a growing ...

As with most things these days, netizens are divided: Some say that influencer Cheng-er should be able to dress how she wants, while others think she ought to cover up a bit in public Influencers will ...

The law comes as part of an initiative to protect children Sex education has always been a tricky issue in traditionally conservative China, where school systems have struggled to generate momentum ...

For the second year, Labor Day will coincide with five days of continuous leave, but netizens are unhappy that it is ruining their weekends Netizens are voicing their annoyance at the arrangements ...

This Qixi Festival, singles have been using the meme to express romantic defeatism Chinese social media has been overflowing with images of Pepe the Frog, also known as the “sad frog meme,” to the ...