Rice and wheat have been the dominant staple in China for centuries. The potato, generally perceived a vegetable instead of staple food, is a cuckoo in...
Freedom of speech has always been a complicated issue in the PRC. The terrorist attack of January 7th on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo quickly became...
Trending on Sina Weibo today is the hot topic of a 'super kid' who took his drunken father home by driving a tractor. What made the...
For most young and single men and women, the New Year’s festivities are something to look forward to. In China, however, millions of single twenty-somethings are...
8-Year-Old with HIV Banned: A small village in Sichuan has held a referendum for the banishment of an 8-year-old boy infected with HIV. The villagers unanimously...
My Skateboard Shoes is China's quirkiest song of 2014.
A noteworthy story from the Netherlands has made the rounds in the Chinese news and on social media. When a Dutch man wanted to propose to...
After her husband did not return from the battlefield in 1937 wartime China, Zhang Shuying never forgot about him. After 77 years, the 93-year-old finally finds...
China has held his first official Nanjing Massacre memorial day over the past weekend. Weibo's netizens have shown their support for the memorial, hoping that China...
China's street cleaners work under extreme conditions. The story of one public cleaner has become a trending topic on Weibo. Netizens urge the government to improve...
Beijing's subway has become increasingly congested over the recent years. Overcrowding often leading to outbursts of aggression. What is different from before is that more and...
They might have lived centuries ago, but are still the talk of the day in Chinese books, television shows and online media. They were often beautiful on the...
It is front page news in some European media: "Mao visits Flanders". The story behind the headlines is a small made-in-China Mao sculpture that travelled to...
For the first time in China, a man has been charged and sentenced to prison for catching toads. Although toads are popular as foodstuff, catching them...
Central theme on Weibo on the International day of the Handicapped: the acceptance of guide dogs in China still has a long way to go.
