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The death of “China’s first extreme height challenger” Wu Yongning has become a trending topic on Weibo over the past two days. Some blame his fans for his death. O ver the past two days, the death of ...

W hat is 6b4t? That is the question popping up in several places on Chinese social media this week after the popular networking platform Douban closed down several feminist groups and targeted the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actor Qin Hao’s remarkable weight loss has sparked waves of online excitement over a potential new diet plan. Qin is not the only Chinese celebrity whose weight loss journey has become an online hype.

First published August 16 2019, by Manya Koetse Foreign luxury brands hoping to appease the Chinese market are walking on eggshells as the political crisis in Hong Kong is deepening. Chinese netizens ...

Shocking videos showing a female performer falling to her death during a high-altitude acrobatic show went trending on Chinese social media this weekend. The incident raised many questions. Why were ...

Recently, a new novel by the famous Chinese author Jia Pingwa has brought the problems of China’s countryside women to the public’s attention. Women from China’s small villages are caught in a Catch ...