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 ...

A US administration looking to score points with nativist know-nothings on the back of vulnerable immigrants. A newly assertive China led by a government frightened of change but eager to appease a ...

In 1793, the British diplomat Lord George Macartney nearly scuttled his trade mission when he famously refused to kowtow to the Qianlong Emperor. When representatives from the Qing court informed ...

Why have one day of crazy consumerism when you can have two? Here are the key stats from JD.com's answer to Alibaba's Singles' Day frenzy, 618 So how did it go down in 2019? Here are some of the key ...

29 new sites were added to UNESCO's World Heritage Site list last weekend, including two in China Last weekend, the 43rd session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe (Inke). If ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe (Inke). If ...

US plant-based meat producer Beyond Meat has launched a vegan minced pork product designed specifically for (and debuting exclusively in) China. Vegetarians are rare in China, but Beyond Pork a big ...

We caught up with the homegrown star to learn how Cantonese culture has shaped his music “Honestly, I don’t understand the mindset of the wealthy because I’m personally not one of them. So, I wrote a ...

Thanks to TikTok, a Mandarin language song from the ’80s is now bringing together Chinese aunties and Norwegian teens. A 1983 classic, “Yi Jian Mei 一剪梅” — literally “A Spray of Plum Blossoms” — was ...

A Chinese toddler burst onto the daytime talk show scene last week when he appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to dance, do a “magic trick,” and giggle a lot. Liang Liang, a three year old from Linyi ...