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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rudolph: Stop calling me names! Reindeer #5: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Santa: [glares at Donner] Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself! What a pity! He had a nice takeoff, too! Comet: [blows ...

The popularity of "Little Fresh Meat" is apparently all down to a CIA operation China’s scientific community has entered the conversation about the wave of fresh-faced, androgynous Chinese male stars ...

Fanfiction site Archive of Our Own, or AO3, has been blocked by Chinese censors after a mass reporting attack by fans of actor Sean Xiao (aka Xiao Zhan), star of “boys’ love” TV series The Untamed.

While we wait for the final denouement of this month’s Party Congress here in Beijing, what is striking to me is not that Xi is making history, but that his ideas are set to fundamentally alter the ...

One of China's best-known science fiction writers wants to showcase the country's diversity - as long as he can stay out of idol fan flame wars Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chen, is a man of ...

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 ...

Did you know you lose 50% of your body heat through your belly? No? That’s because it’s not true. But you could be forgiven for thinking that was the belief among a certain segment of Chinese society, ...

The concept of "little fresh meat" isn't just an import – it has roots in the ancient idea of "wen" masculinity A fantastic example of these two male types in action can be seen in The Longest Day in ...

Sitting at an intersection in Beijing, not far west from the bustling tourist traps of Prince Gong’s mansion and the shores of Houhai lake, is a small courtyard where China’s first truly global ...