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.
In 1957, Zhang's brother was given away by his mother because she couldn't afford to pay for a stolen bread.
While English-language media describe China's social credit system as a Black Mirror-like authoritarian implementation, Chinese social media users seem to focus more on the advantages than...
Is Chinese drinking culture to blame for deaths related to alcohol?
Why have China's most popular Rage Comics (Baozou Manhua) channels been shut down?
Now parents can monitor their children's behavior in class.
Even if they happened 80 years ago, these unsolved murder cases still haunt Chinese netizens today.
A ten-second video is causing commotion on Weibo and WeChat.
The murder on the 21-year-old flight attendant has raised concerns among netizens on the safety of car-hailing app Didi.
Many netizens say this kind of public shaming reminds them of the days of the Cultural Revolution.
Stories of the top achievers of China's national exams can no longer be propagated by state media; the emphasis should shift to the average, harmonious student.
Signature forgery by Chinese kuaidi (couriers) happens on a daily basis. For a delivery company in Jiangsu, one false signature ended up costing a lot of...
From children's icon to ganger pig, Peppa Pig is now banned from China's popular short video platform Douyin.
China's bubble tea (aka pearl milk tea) market is booming: these are the top 10 popular milk tea shops in the PRC.
A shocking attack on a naughty boy on a public bus have triggered online discussions on China's "little brats."
There was so much pressure from the parents that the school gates came down.
