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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In America, laying on the car horn is a driver’s sure way of saying one of two things: 1) “You’re an asshole”; 2) “I’m an asshole.” I’ve found it’s a little more ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 ...

Facebook has finally entered mainland China, after the registration of a Facebook entity in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province and home of Alibaba, was reportedly approved on July 18. On ...

Que Jianyu is a 13-year-old Rubik’s Cube master from Xiamen. We’re big fans. So you can imagine the thrill we experienced when we saw that Que has returned. This time, he’s attempting to break new ...

Two members of Beijing-based band New Pants have moved fans after posting a video online singing in an empty stadium in Suzhou After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll sadly admit we’ve begun ...

A viral report from “People” magazine sheds light on the human impact of China's ubiquitous food delivery systems One of the most shared articles today on Chinese messaging app WeChat is “Delivery ...