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China Society Online Debates About China’s Train Traditions: No More Instant Noodles or Cigarette Breaks? There’s talk of a ‘de-instant-noodling’ of China’s high-speed trains, but many netizens think ...

Dongji Island premiered in cinemas on August 8 and is based on the 1942 Lisbon Maru Incident. The Lisbon Maru was a Japanese ...

What’s on Weibo is a reader-supported publication, run by Manya Koetse ( @manyapan ), offering independent analysis of social ...

From foreign anti-smoking bloggers to the “Modern Lin Zexu,” China is seeing a rise in online anti-smoking activism.

These days have been filled with tension and anger in the city of Jiangyou (江油市), Sichuan, after a rare, large-scale protest broke out following public outrage over a severe bullying incident and how ...

Dear Reader Waiting for Karma in the Maskpark Scandal From Telegram to Shaolin Temple, the two scandals that rocked Chinese social media this week.

On July 16, locals in Yuhang (余杭), a district of Hangzhou, noticed something fishy about their running water. It had turned brown and smelled unpleasant. From residential compounds in Liangzhu to ...

China ACG Culture Inside the Labubu Craze and the Globalization of Chinese Designer Toys Labubu is not ‘Chinese’ at all—and at the same time, it is very much a product of present-day China.

China Memes & Viral Strange Encounter During IShowSpeed’s Chengdu Livestream The cosplaying girl, who usd the n-word and told the American YouTuber how racist she was, seems to have been referencing a ...

We’re introducing What’s on Weibo Chapters—monthly themes that will allow us to dig deeper into the stories behind the hashtags. Each month, we will dive into one of our six key areas: Digital Life in ...

After a Chinese blogger exposed the alarming presence of hidden cameras in hotels, public outrage and mistrust soared about privacy violations and the lack of accountability from local authorities.