From mockery of his pro-gun stance to posts over America’s deepening divisions, Chinese social media responds to the Charlie ...

For a long time, Chinese netizens have criticized how photography of Chinese news events by Western outlets—from BBC and CNN ...

From Kim Jong-un in Beijing to Lu Xun’s cigarette: what China’s talking about this week – a top 10 by What’s on Weibo.

T he final hours of the final countdown to China’s Victory Day, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II ...

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 ...

With screenings for Down syndrome becoming more advanced, there are less and less babies being born with Down in China every year. Unborn babies with Down syndrome are allowed to be aborted to up to ...

Chinese TV drama A Love for Dilemma (“小舍得”) has reignited an ongoing debate about the problem of ‘involution’ in Chinese society today. In the series, two stepsisters compete against each other over ...

Cao Cao flipping the rice bowl is another Cao Cao meme that’s widely used to convey internal struggles about facing reality. These days, a viral meme originating from the Chinese TV series Three ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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