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 viral report from “People” magazine sheds light on the human impact of China's ubiquitous food delivery systems One of the most shared articles today on Chinese messaging app WeChat is “Delivery ...

Documentary “We Were Smart” sheds light on the shunned subculture shamate and China’s urban-rural gulf Focused largely around rural migrant workers who’d travelled to China’s cities to get in on, and ...

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 ...

Rogue Historian is a weekly column by Jeremiah Jenne, a writer, educator, and historian based in Beijing. Find more of his writing at Jottings from the Granite Studio. If it’s summer, it must be time ...

In the pantheon of batshit inanities to issue forth from the mouth and stubby fingers of one Donald J. Trump, the President’s offhand comment earlier this month insinuating that almost all Chinese ...

Across Chinese social media, millennials are bellowing a widespread battlecry. The target? Marriage, and the prospect of having kids. It began with a post from state media outlet People’s Daily on the ...

It can be difficult to convey the broad sweep of China’s history in six hours. More than one professor has struggled — even when given a whole semester of lectures — to properly tell the story from ...

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 ...

Rudolph: Stop calling me names! Reindeer #5: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Santa: [glares at Donner] Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself! What a pity! He had a nice takeoff, too! Comet: [blows ...

How does "Nothing But Thirty" hold up in China's feminist television awakening? So does Nothing But Thirty mark a breaking of new ground for feminist narratives in the mainstream, or are its themes ...

Signs have started appearing in Beijing asking local residents to move out of the city center. Is this a new phase in Beijing's "Great Rejuvenation"? The continuing “Rejuvenation” of Beijing enters a ...