Nanjing is hotting up, diners are flocking outside, the makeshift tables have been set up and the cases of beer have been chilled. The crayfish bonanza has begun. Yet, that which is now virtually a national obsession in fact...
A new-found hunger for knowledge among China’s younger generations is driving the success of self-made tutorial video websites, in the process creating a much more YouTube-like, online-video ecosystem, but one with a twist.
Bilibili, originally known as a video website...
Among the more well-known thought experiments is “If you could only save one person…?” In today’s China, however, it is reality TV that is leading way with its new incarnation, “Life ranking; children, parents, spouse or yourself”, as the...
In the early morning of 31 March, Ma Cancan, who studies in Nanjing’s Xianlin University Town, lightly clicked her mouse to build an "Online Memorial Hall" for her deceased grandparents, to make up for the regret she felt at...
Emojis of 16 cultural relics officially launched by the Gansu Museum have gone viral online, part of a campaign to "make cultural relics alive". The emojis are designed to be dynamic and accompanied by buzzwords on the Internet.
As a...
China experiences some of the highest rates of cyber bullying in the world. As backlash to such a statistic, a new online group has come to the fore, one in which there are no haters and no negative comments.
The...
Despite all the entrepreneurial advancement of recent years, in which people balance both work and life; better yet, integrate the two; mental and physical health is still on the decline. Advocates of work-life integration say it is now harder...
Chinese citizens, nay netizens, love little more than a fierce online argument. One of the most recent and hottest is seeing uproar over the official pronunciation of common, and not so common, expressions, given their revised appearance in Chinese...