In celebration of International Record Store Day, which falls on April 21 this year, our photo theme this week is Record Shopping in China. Though vinyl culture never quite caught on China in quite ...

“China Instagram accounts” may sound like an oxymoron at first — after all, access to the platform has been blocked for years now in the Chinese mainland. But Instagram accounts by content creators ...

Ma Baoguo, the kung fu master who suffered a viral, embarrassing defeat at the hands of a kickboxer, has retired from martial arts In May, legendary tai chi master Ma Baoguo was handily defeated by an ...

Chinese netizens have applauded Qi and her husband’s unconventional move, which one social media user noted “sends a nice message” to the public On May 27, Chinese actress Qi Wei made a joyous ...

Thanks to TikTok, a Mandarin language song from the ’80s is now bringing together Chinese aunties and Norwegian teens. A 1983 classic, “Yi Jian Mei 一剪梅” — literally “A Spray of Plum Blossoms” — was ...

It’s an interesting age we’re in, where unique cultural phenomena (read: memes) can be produced, packaged, exported, reborn, and revised all in the blink of an eye. New Yorker Staff Writer and ...

Yan Ge now writes in English, but she's still telling stories of rural China in her Sichuan dialect Sichuan-born novelist Yan Ge, who is famous for her stories of rural China that are written in her ...

Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what's going on? Toward the end of every year, when China’s magazines, newspapers, and online ...

As the company eyes an IPO, how much longer will Kuaishou be the go-to short video platform for China's rural population? Dong Yu has worked for a local piano manufacturer for over 25 years. Living in ...

The spiritual successor to the cult classic 'Shaolin Soccer' has officially arrived in Chinese cinemas, bringing an all-female underdog kung fu squad to the pitch. The official Kung Fu Soccer poster ...

Documentary “We Were Smart” sheds light on the shunned subculture shamate and China’s urban-rural gulf Focused largely around rural migrant workers who’d travelled to China’s cities to get in on, and ...

The two extremes of coffee now share the same corporate home. This March, Luckin Coffee, China’s most aggressive mass-market caffeine machine, acquired Blue Bottle Coffee, long positioned as the ...