L abubu – the hottest toy of 2025 – is making headlines everywhere these days. The little creature is all over TikTok, and ...

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

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 ...

Angela is a Shanghai-based freelance writer focusing on a wide range of sociopolitical topics in China, including social media pop culture, and gender issues. Born and raised in Taiwan, Angela holds a ...

A specific genre of political satire has been gaining popularity on Chinese social media lately, with some images even making international headlines. While political satire mocking Chinese ...

What are Weibo’s “Super Topics” (超级话题) and what makes them different from normal hashtags? Over the past year, Weibo’s so-called “Super Topics” (超级话题) have become more popular on the social media ...

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 ...

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 ...

A TikTok video showing a mother of eight living in a small hut with an iron chain around her neck has sent shockwaves across Chinese social media. According to local authorities, the woman is ...

While the China-US meeting is all the talk, it is interpreter Zhang Jing who has hit the limelight. It probably was not easy to translate the tough talks at the high-level meeting between the U.S. and ...