Shortly after the incident, videos and photos began circulating on WeChat, showing young children covered in blood on the ground. A woman in Guixi, a county-level city in Jiangxi’s Yingtan, has been ...

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What do Mao’s 1953 Korean War speech and Yang Jiechi’s 2021 Alaska Summit remarks have to do with the escalating US–China trade war? In Chinese official media responses, history and emotionally ...

On April 23, a day after the video ‘Voices of April’ briefly took over social media before it was censored, the trending topic of the day is a hashtag related to new Covid cases reported in Shanghai.

In the face of powerlessness in the storm, it is the stories of people bravely taking control that offer a ray of light during darker times. The devastating rain that caused havoc in Fujian, Beijing, ...

On Weibo, many people held different views on the incident regarding two women being tied up after violating Guangzhou anti-epidemic rules. An incident involving two young women in Guangzhou went ...

A new character was added to China’s memeverse this week. He is called the ‘Subway Judge’ (Dìtiě Pànguān, 地铁判官), a young man who gained notoriety for an incident that occurred on a Qingdao subway this ...

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On January 14, Tencent’s Wechat introduced new emoji to its existing emoji set. The new emoji include, among others, a watermelon-eating emoji and a smiling Shiba Inu. On Weibo, the new emoji have ...

Humble prodigy or deceptive impostor? Jiang Ping has been fueling online discussions since her remarkable score in the Alibaba maths competition. It’s rare for a math competition to become the focus ...

A high-profile arson case in Hangzhou has become a focus of attention for Chinese netizens. The person suspected of starting the fire that killed a mother and her three children, is the family nanny.