How Adidas won and Nike lost, Japan's lost decades as a mirror for China, and why a possum is the new workplace spirit animal.
Why has Adidas regained cultural relevance in China while Nike is struggling despite its global strength?
A response to a Dutch debate on China, and why nuance matters in an age of geopolitical polarization.
After the first complaints surfaced, Auntie Goose Legs admitted the truth about her business: she ha been selling duck legs all along.
A special deep dive into the 2026 Xi-Trump summit through Chinese social media, highlighting the top 15 viral moments, internet memes, main themes, and netizen commentary.
Inside OPPO’s Mother’s Day PR fiasco and other failed marketing campaigns in China’s gender minefield
From top trends to platform scandals, these were the biggest online topics of the year.
Hasan Piker's controversial China tour, a Chinese school uniform resurfaces in Africa, a new winter hotspot, why Chinese elites 'run' to Tokyo, and more.
Female comedians are taking center stage in a new era of Chinese stand-up, challenging stereotypes and turning jokes into real-life impact.
A new state-backed epic about the Qing conquest of Taiwan is stirring debate. Plus: the Shanxi mine disaster, a controversial prison film, hukou reform, and China’s top 5 rising books.
From AI-generated film releases to popular “micro-vacations”, these are the digital & social trends shaping Chinese online conversations this May Day holiday.
This week in China: Grassroots football fever, a Nobel laureate writes for the TikTok era, France's cultural relic bill, and a 19-year-old’s blind box obsession bankrupts her father's company.
How a niche online debate was amplified into a global “racism” story, and why the real discussion runs deeper
Russian recruitment ads, China's censorship, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing's stance by reading between the wrong lines.
Weibo, Wechat, Douyin, or Xiaohongshu? Understanding China’s top 10 social media platforms.
Behind the hashtag about Nanjing's cross-dressing ‘Sister Hong’: from legal implications to viral spectacle.
Labubu is not ‘Chinese’ at all—and at the same time, it is very much a product of present-day China.
As American 'TikTok Refugees' flock to China's Xiaohongshu (Rednote), their encounter with 'Li Hua' strikes a chord in divided times.
The lookalike sisters thought it was "convenient" to use each other's passport to travel to Japan, Russia, Thailand and other countries.
Netizens interpreted this as a sign that China's current Covid strategy would continue at least five more years.
Nanny was distracted by her phone, the open window was easily accessible; both factors played a role in the fatal fall of the Hangzhou child.
"Now we can all have eight children and a bright future," one Chinese commenter sarcastically wrote about the U.S. reversal of abortion law.
Weibo discussions on 'Racism for Sale' documentary: "BBC is maliciously hyping up the issue."
The deafening silence surrounding the female victims of the Tangshan incident is trending on Weibo, where people are demanding answers.
"It must be American hackers who did this, right?", some Weibo commenters wrote in light of the miraculously changing Health Codes.
New Oriental is going from classroom to e-commerce. Online shopping has never been more educational.
This outburst of violence against female customers at a restaurant in Tangshan has sent shockwaves across Chinese social media.
Many netizens are not happy over Kindle exiting the Chinese market: "We never know when the online services we use suddenly stop working."
Rather than the Bund or city parks, it's the PCR testing points that are Shanghai's most lively spots after the city's reopening.
People are happy to roam the streets again, but some say the people of Shanghai will not forget what has happened.
Fangcang hospitals are here to stay as long as China sticks to its current zero-Covid path.
As Psyduck goes viral, KFC Children's Day toys are deemed "too childish for children but just perfect for us adults."
Why Weibo is focused on these elementary math schoolbooks.
