If it walks like a duck, it might just be Auntie Goose Legs. A wrap-up of noteworthy trending stories in China. From the real Rolex recruiting fake crowds to diaper scares & a funny Deepseek moment.
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?
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.
China's latest COVID-19 infection prevention and control measures are drawing criticism from social media users.
Idol reality survival shows are riding a new wave of popularity in China.
..Chinese netizens made the super-popular reality show "Sisters Who Make Waves" go viral anyway.
Hainan's police have never been cooler.
A major oil tanker explosion has left over a hundred people injured and at least ten dead in Wenling, Zhejiang.
Some of the most popular Chinese tv dramas of the moment.
"Are these the 'human rights' that you are advocating?"
Another incident shows the gravity of China's school bullying problem.
Weibo talks egg freezing.
How a Weibo journal got caught up in pandemic politics: the Wuhan Diary controversy explained.
As a role model for female empowerment, Papi Jiang should not have given her child her husband's last name, 'feminists' on Weibo say.
Local authorities announced a "wartime mode" lockdown due to 13 new local coronavirus cases in Shulan.
For some people, IKEA apparently feels a little too much like home.
Chinese students are back to school, but school life is not back to normal.
As the COVID-19 lockdown has ended in Wuhan, many people are happy to see the city's traffic finally getting busy again. "I hated traffic jams before,...
