A growing number of youth-run cafés, libraries, and cultural spaces are emerging across China’s smaller towns, but why now? Last month, a space in Cili, Hunan Province, celebrated its one-year ...

Lots of flavor points for the actor's pub stunt as part of his 'Marty Supreme' China tour. Read on to see what else went down. Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme tour just landed in China, and it’s ...

In 1922, Albert Einstein traveled around Asia accompanied by his then-wife, Elsa. Einstein’s diaries of that trip, recently published for the first time in English, suggest that the renowned physicist ...

The breadth and scope of Chinese literature is at times hard to fathom. With such an array of literary history, as well as non-fiction offerings, at your disposal, the task of finding a good, ...

Our photo theme this week is “Get Physical” — physical education and culture that spans dynasties. Kung fu, qigong, elderly square dancing, and everything in between. We teased it in our post ...

In the pantheon of batshit inanities to issue forth from the mouth and stubby fingers of one Donald J. Trump, the President’s offhand comment earlier this month insinuating that almost all Chinese ...

For the past week, a small town in eastern China criss-crossed by canals and lined with traditional old buildings as been at the center of the country’s performing arts scene. While there are bigger, ...

In celebration of International Record Store Day, which falls on April 21 this year, our photo theme this week is Record Shopping in China. Though vinyl culture never quite caught on China in quite ...

Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what's going on? Toward the end of every year, when China’s magazines, newspapers, and online ...

This Qixi Festival, singles have been using the meme to express romantic defeatism Chinese social media has been overflowing with images of Pepe the Frog, also known as the “sad frog meme,” to the ...

Ma Baoguo, the kung fu master who suffered a viral, embarrassing defeat at the hands of a kickboxer, has retired from martial arts In May, legendary tai chi master Ma Baoguo was handily defeated by an ...

Our photo theme this week is “The ’90s in China.” Not China in the 1990s, but “The Nineties” as a global pop cultural form as it has been consumed and reworked inside China, both then and now. Zhai ...