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 ...

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 ...

While we wait for the final denouement of this month’s Party Congress here in Beijing, what is striking to me is not that Xi is making history, but that his ideas are set to fundamentally alter the ...

Another year, another intense exam season for high school seniors in China. For some students sitting the exam in 2022, not everything went to plan... Every June, students in their final year of high ...

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 ...

Today is not only Dragon Boat Festival in China, but also one of the country’s numerous “shopping festivals” — in this case it’s 6.18, originally created by JD.com to celebrate their founding in 1998.

Our photo theme this week is Fashion Frontiers: fabulous looks at the far edges of contemporary Chinese culture. If you’re looking up to light up the night in a near-future cyberpunk dystopia, ...

Translated as ‘chicken baby,’ 鸡娃 (jī wá) are kids brought up by ‘Tiger Moms’ who push them to succeed and be their best. That kid who lives next store to you and is forced to practice the piano until ...

Zhan Zhonghua was born in the Year of the Tiger in 1962 and, like everyone in his family, has been a farmer his entire life. Bountiful rice farms, passed from generation to generation, aren’t the ...

Our photo series this week looks at some of the summer blockbusters set for China’s cinema screens in the next couple of months. Whether or not that sounds like your kind of thing, it’s hard to deny ...

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 ...

Allow us to introduce you once again to Novel Fergus — a hip hop poet riding the waves all the way from Hong Kong. A few weeks ago he helped us break down the poetry of Cantonese, and now he’s back as ...