This is a ‘dynamic file’ offering updates on trending topics and buzz related to China’s participation in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. After China’s golden success at the 2024 Paris Olympics, it’s ...
A big debate over yùzhìcài — pre-made food — has boiled over on Chinese social media after a Xibei food review by Luo Yonghao ...
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On Weibo and other social media platforms in China, hundreds of hashtags have emerged around the theme of the “afterglow ...
From mockery of his pro-gun stance to posts over America’s deepening divisions, Chinese social media responds to the Charlie ...
For a long time, Chinese netizens have criticized how photography of Chinese news events by Western outlets—from BBC and CNN ...
“We are not friends, and have never been,” is a line that went viral recently in light of the heightened focus on war in Chinese media and popular culture. A man in a blood-stained 1940s PLA uniform ...
With China’s box office relay tradition, every movie’s success becomes a win for Chinese cinema. When one film breaks a record in China, the previous champion often celebrates with a playful and ...
From foreign anti-smoking bloggers to the “Modern Lin Zexu,” China is seeing a rise in online anti-smoking activism. Anti-smoking activism, especially by foreigners, has recently drawn attention on ...
🔥 This column also appeared in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. Earlier this month, a female Weibo user nicknamed “The Armpit-Haired Dude” (@腋毛大汉) posted an exposé on Weibo, ...
The year is 1990, and the streets of Beijing’s Fangshan District are eerily quiet. You can almost hear a pin drop in the petrochemical town, as tens of thousands of workers and their families huddle ...
What began as K-pop fan outrage targeting a snarky commenter quickly escalated into a Baidu-linked scandal and a broader conversation about data privacy on Chinese social media. For an ordinary person ...