A 60-year-old man from Nanjing became the biggest trending topic on Weibo recently after news circulated that he had ...

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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 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 ...

Western brands faced heavy criticism in China this week when a social media storm erupted over the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and its brand members for no longer sourcing from China’s Xinjiang ...

China Fashion & Beauty Clicking Into the Craze: Exploring the Rise of “Ethnic-Themed Photos” Among Chinese Tourists Patriotic, problematic, or purely photogenic? The trend of ethnic photoshoots has ...

China Society “Elderlies” in Their Thirties: The Growing Interest of Chinese Youth in Nursing Homes Some Chinese nursing homes are evolving into sought-after havens where China’s younger people can ...

A short movie that has gone viral on Chinese social media exposes the big differences between the dorm conditions of Chinese students and of foreigners studying in China. The dorm disparities have ...

TikTok, known as the international version of the Chinese successful short video app Douyin, is a global hit. Despite Bytedance’s efforts to present Douyin and TikTok as being the same product, they ...