Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...

Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

The mingling of so-called "TikTok refugees" with Chinese users on the PRC-based social network Xiaohongshu spawned a range of reactions, from some Chinese users’ excitement at the unexpected opening ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the ...

DeepSeek’s rapid rise to fame this month after the release of its new AI chatbot has supercharged debates about the efficacy of U.S. export controls and the race to AI-tech superiority. Many in China ...

Independent Taiwanese news outlet The Reporter published a series of articles this month about the lives of transgender youths and how their families and friends navigated their transition. Compared ...

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has taken the world by storm by releasing its latest AI chatbot. The free chatbot has been touted as mostly open-source, more efficient, and by certain measures better ...

After several doctors voiced concerns about the poor quality of domestically produced generic medications included in China’s national health-care plan—and after online sleuths found numerous examples ...

Ermeiyaoxiaodao (@二枚腰小道): GFW (Great Firewall of China) has blocked all Google services, including Google Scholar, which is essential to research. If you think this is unacceptable, we ...

A self-deprecating description of individual investors who re-invest in the stock market after initial losses; also used to address youth disillusionment and endemic government corruption.