A look back at the three major phases of China’s social media — and why What’s on Weibo is evolving into Eye on Digital China ...

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Using hashtags such as “Trump’s Political Ally Shot While Speaking” (# 特朗普政治盟友演讲时遭枪击 #), Chinese media outlets, online ...

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 the burdens ...

Wang Sicong is one of China’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelors, but this love interest wasn’t interested at all. She has now shared their erratic chat conversations with the public. Chinese ...

Over the past two days, everybody on Chinese social media is talking about an incident that happened at a BBQ restaurant in Tangshan, a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. A ...

Chinese underworld kingpin Zhao Fuqiang turned his Shanghai “Little Red Mansion” into a hell on earth for dozens of women who were forced into a life of sex work within his organized crime network.

The ‘green tea bitch’ (绿茶婊) is a new term launched over the Chinese Internet to describe a certain ‘type’ of woman. It is one amongst a series of new terms (milk tea bitch, black coffee bitch, etc) ...

UPDATE DECEMBER 20 2021: Please see our recent article for a full translation of Peng Shuai’s post and a timeline of events. On the night of November 2nd, a Weibo post by Chinese tennis player Peng ...

A specific genre of political satire has been gaining popularity on Chinese social media lately, with some images even making international headlines. While political satire mocking Chinese ...

As people mourned the victims of the Urumqi fire, they also expressed anger over how the last 100 days of their lives were spent in lockdown. A fire that occurred in Urumqi city, Xinjiang, on the ...

Chinese cinemagoers noticed that a nude Florence Pugh, who plays Jean Tatlock, is covered by a ‘little black dress’ in China’s version of Oppenheimer. Chinese cinemagoers noticed that a nude Florence ...