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China Youth Federation: Ban Minors from Live Streaming Platforms
First published March 9 2019, 17:30 China standard time More than 45% of Chinese live stream users are minors. A new proposal by the China Youth Federation wants to ban those under the age of 18 from...
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In China’s “Kua Kua” Chat Groups, People Pay to Be Praised [Updated]
First published March 14, 2019 Social media is often called a battlefield, but in these Chinese WeChat ‘Kua kua’ groups (夸夸群), people will praise you no matter what you do or say. A new phenomenon has...
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Chinese Netizens’ Response to New Zealand Mosque Attacks
The shocking New Zealand mosque attack, killing at least 49 people, is making headlines worldwide. On Weibo, it is the top trending topic today. A short overview of some of the reactions on Chinese...
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Breaking: Jiangsu Yancheng Chemical Plant Explosion
Last updated March 21 2019, 20.20 China local time Update: The Day After the Explosion On March 21st at about 14.48 local time, an explosion occurred at a chemical plant in Yancheng city in Jiangsu. At...
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The Day After the “3•21” Devastating Yancheng Explosion: 47 Dead, 640 Injured
Last updated March 22 2019, 17.10 China local time The enormous explosion at a chemical plant in Jiangsu’s Yancheng on March 21st has sent shockwaves through the country. While state media are focusing...
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Catharsis on Taobao? Chinese ‘All is Well’ TV Drama Fans Are Paying Up to...
Chinese TV drama ‘All is Well’ is such an online hit, that the collective despise for the fictional villains in the story is getting all too real. The show itself, along with an online service to scold...
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The Tom Hiddleston China ‘Centrum’ Commercial That Has Got Everyone Confused
A new commercial for Centrum Vitamins in China that was released on Weibo this week, starring Tom Hiddleston, has attracted the attention of Chinese netizens for being both “weird” and “irresistible.”...
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Digitalizing China’s Beauty Industry: Introducing Supermakeup’s ‘Beauty...
You’re on the road and need a skin, make-up, or hair fix-up before your next appointment, but have no time for a spa session and would rather avoid dirty toilet rooms? These are the kinds of situations...
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Meet China’s Latest Internet Celebrity: The “Vagrant Shanghai Professor”...
Over the past month, the popular short-video app Douyin flooded with videos of the so-called “Vagrant Shanghai Professor” (上海流浪大师), who has conquered the hearts of millions of Chinese netizens. His...
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Visual China Group Under Fire for Claiming to Own Copyrights to Black Hole...
First published April 12 2019, 13:00 CST The Visual China Group’s website has been temporarily shut down after controversy over the company claiming the copyrights of the black hole image and the...
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Explainer: Answering Five Big Questions on the ‘Study Xi’ App
First published April 14 2019, 14:00 CST As the ‘Study Xi’ app, that encourages China’s online population to study Xi Jinping Thought, keeps on dominating China’s top app charts, these are some of the...
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After Notre Dame Blaze, Chinese Netizens Remember How the French Burned Down...
While many people across the world are mourning the devastating fire that left parts of the 800-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris completely destroyed, Chinese social media users have collectively...
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Chinese Actor Zhao Lixin Banned from Weibo over Comments on Second...
Sina Weibo issued a statement on April 16 that the Weibo account of the Chinese-Swedish actor Zhao Lixin has been terminated following remarks he made about Japan’s invasion of China and the Second...
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Massive Fire Breaks Out Near Qipan Mountain in Shenyang
In the afternoon of April 17, local time, a massive fire broke out near Qipan Mountain in the city of Shenyang in China’s northeast Liaoning Province. Videos circulating on Chinese social media show...
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‘Sharenting’ on Chinese Social Media: When Parents Are Posting Too Many Baby...
First published April 18 2019, 16:00 CST It’s called ‘Sharenting’ in English, it’s called ‘Shàiwá’ in Mandarin Chinese, and it’s all about parents sharing (too) many photos of their offspring on social...
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Blazing Memories: About the Comparison of the Notre Dame Fire to the Burning...
First published April 18 2019, 23:30 CST A What’s on Weibo news article on Chinese online responses to the Notre Dame fire attracted very mixed reactions on English-language social media this week....
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What Are Weibo’s “Super Topics”?
What are Weibo’s “Super Topics” (超级话题) and what makes them different from normal hashtags? Over the past year, Weibo’s so-called “Super Topics” (超级话题) have become more popular on the social media...
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Chinese Construction Worker Left Jobless after Exposing the Dangers of Flimsy...
First published April 25 2019 A video of a Chinese construction worker showing the shocking difference in quality between the safety helmets of laborers versus those of their supervisors went viral on...
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“Why Aren’t You Getting Married?”– China’s Marriage Rates Keep Dropping
First published April 26 2019 China’s dropping marriage rates have been a hot topic in Chinese newspapers and on Chinese social media recently. Chinese netizens and state media, however, seem to have...
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Chinese Man Pays Three Years of Child Support for Photoshopped Baby
The unfortunate story of an Hangzhou man who paid approximately 600,000 RMB ($89,150) in child support for a baby that turned out to be non-existent is making its way around Chinese social media. A...
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