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 ...

Earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence gave the first significant policy speech on US-China relations since Donald Trump took office in 2017. Let’s start off by acknowledging that it’s good ...

If you felt that Kenny G popping up in Kim Kardashian’s living room last month was some sort of harbinger of end times for us as a species, then you might want to look away now. In Shanghai, a story ...

A super-popular tea shop brand is getting called out over its advertising One of China’s most popular regional tea shops — the incredibly-named Sexy Tea — is increasingly finding itself under fire on ...

A new Chinese drama, which attempts to examine the lives of Chinese international students in the United States, has drawn the ire of viewers Released in mid-June, Over the Sea I Come to You is a ...

Yin (音, “music”) is a weekly Radii feature that looks at Chinese songs spanning classical to folk to modern experimental, and everything in between. Drop us a line if you have a suggestion. Re-TROS, ...

Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe (Inke). If you know nothing about the ...

The last few weeks have seen Harvard’s admissions process on trial. But the case — brought by Affirmative Action opponent Edward Blum and being tried by the Boston Federal Courthouse at the moment — ...

Today is not only Dragon Boat Festival in China, but also one of the country’s numerous “shopping festivals” — in this case it’s 6.18, originally created by JD.com to celebrate their founding in 1998.

For 15 years, Educating Girls in Rural China (EGRC) has changed the lives of thousands of young women Since the 1970s, China has officially been on a mission to lift every member of its population out ...

China’s shared bike revolution has been remarkable. Pretty much every city in the country now has its sidewalks cluttered with bikes of various bright colors that can be opened with the scan of a QR ...

More like Oxford *mostly* English Dictionary. The Chinese phrase 加油 jia you — literally, “add oil” — has just been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Or, well, there’s the “intention to publish ...