Dongji Island premiered in cinemas on August 8 and is based on the 1942 Lisbon Maru Incident. The Lisbon Maru was a Japanese ...

What’s on Weibo is a reader-supported publication, run by Manya Koetse ( @manyapan ), offering independent analysis of social ...

From foreign anti-smoking bloggers to the “Modern Lin Zexu,” China is seeing a rise in online anti-smoking activism.

This is What's on Weibo's top 3 of what's trending (Aug 12–13): public outrage over a fatal stabbing in Nanchang, the ...

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) ...

China Celebs Six Years after Chinese Pop Star Zhang Muyi (24) Declared Love for 12-Year-Old Miki Akama, They’re Now Tying the Knot Zhang Muyi became her music coach when Miki Akama was only 8 years ...

Backgrounder Open Sesame: Social Credit in China as Gate to Punitive Measures and Personal Perks While English-language media describe China’s social credit system as a Black Mirror-like authoritarian ...

China Health & Science The “Last Downer”: China and the End of Down Syndrome With screenings for Down syndrome becoming more advanced, there are less and less babies being born with Down in China ...

In general, the illustrations on Social Credit in Chinese state media roughly present China’s nascent Social Credit implementation in two ways; (1) as punishing individuals for bad behavior and (2) as ...

China Society Censorship of Chinese 6B4T & Feminist Groups Prompts Wave of Support for “Douban Sisters” Even those who don’t agree with ‘6b4t’ views condemn Douban’s recent crackdown on 6b4t and ...

As American 'TikTok Refugees' flock to China's Xiaohongshu (Rednote), their encounter with 'Li Hua' strikes a chord in divided times.