Pat yourself on the back for a job well done: you’ve successfully located the most extraordinary thing on the internet out of China today. With the pre-opening of Universal Studios Beijing this week, ...

More than 10 million students will sit the gaokao tomorrow. Here's what that might look like Large gatherings around the world have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But in China, more ...

While this year is an off-year for major celebrations, the Party – including the Rejuvenator-in-Chief – has been busy going retro. Now, I’m a big fan of retro. Tiki drinks. Shag carpets. The music of ...

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 ...

Fans are jumping in to fill the gaps left by traditional publishing houses China’s massive online literature reservoir continues to grow, and, at the same time, continues to be underrepresented by ...

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 ...

Did you know you lose 50% of your body heat through your belly? No? That’s because it’s not true. But you could be forgiven for thinking that was the belief among a certain segment of Chinese society, ...

Earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence gave the first significant policy speech on US-China relations since Donald Trump took office in 2017. Let’s start off by acknowledging that it’s good ...

Sitting at an intersection in Beijing, not far west from the bustling tourist traps of Prince Gong’s mansion and the shores of Houhai lake, is a small courtyard where China’s first truly global ...

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 super-popular tea shop brand is getting called out over its advertising One of China’s most popular regional tea shops — the incredibly-named Sexy Tea — is increasingly finding itself under fire on ...

As China's reality-show-pop-music industrial complex churns on, can iQIYI repeat the hype it created around last year's readymade boy band NINE PERCENT? China hasn’t been immune to the wave of pop ...