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Chaotic Scenes at Shanghai Nanhui Quarantine Site
Videos showing chaotic scenes at a Covid-19 quarantine center in Shanghai were shared on Chinese social media sites WeChat and Weibo on Monday. Many videos showed how people quarantined at the site...
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Fried Belt Fish on the Menu for Shanghai Residents in Lockdown
Fried cutlassfish, also called belt fish or ribbon fish, is the dish that suddenly went trending on Chinese social media site Weibo on Monday. The topic came up after residents in various locked-down...
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Another Pet Dog Beaten to Death by Healthcare Worker, Growing Frustration...
On the evening of April 6, photos and a video of a corgi dog being beaten to death by a Shanghai healthcare worker flooded Chinese social media after the WeChat account ‘corgi sh’ posted about the...
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Trending on Weibo: “Why Can’t Shanghai Residents with Covid-19 Recover at Home?”
According to China’s strict Covid measures, everyone testing positive during Shanghai’s current outbreak needs to go to a centralized quarantine location. While Chinese top experts say home isolation...
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Weibo Has Still Blocked ‘Shanghai Buy Groceries’ Hashtag
While Shanghai is promising to improve food supplies for locked-down residents, many households are still struggling to get their groceries and complain about high prices for basic food items. Over the...
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Shanghai Residents Protest as Pudong Apartment Building Turns Into Quarantine...
A local protest in a Shanghai neighborhood where residents are angry about their community buildings being taken over and used as a quarantine site has now moved from the streets to the internet. On...
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How Chinese State Media’s ‘America is Bad’ Hashtags Are Backfiring on Weibo
By Friday, April 15, a Weibo hashtag page about the U.S. being the worst country in the world when it comes to human rights (#美国就是全球最大的人权赤字国#) had received over 580 million views on Chinese social...
View ArticleThe German Expat Phone Call That Went Viral in Shanghai [Full Transcript]
On Tuesday, April 19, a recording of a phone call between a German national living in Shanghai and a translator working for the neighborhood committee was shared from WeChat group to WeChat group and...
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Aerial View Photos of Shanghai Office Spaces Turned Into Covid-19 Quarantine...
Aerial view photos of Shanghai office spaces turned into a Covid-19 quarantine site attracted the attention of Chinese netizens this week after they were widely shared on WeChat and WeChat. After one...
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U.S. Citizen Faces Death Penalty in China for 2021 Ningbo Murder
On Thursday, April 21, Chinese media outlets reported about a court case in which a China-based American citizen was sentenced to death for the murder of a Chinese woman in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province....
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King of Workout Livestream: Liu Genghong Has Become an Online Hit During...
With their exercise livestreams, Liu and his wife are bringing some positive vibes to Shanghai and the rest of China in Covid times, getting thousands of social media users to jump along with them. On...
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The Voices of April – The Short Online Life of a Shanghai Protest Video
Voices of April is a video containing edited audio snippets that show the reality of a Covid-stricken Shanghai where residents struggle with feelings of powerlessness. The video seeped into every...
View Article‘Voices of April’: The Day After
On April 23, a day after the video ‘Voices of April’ briefly took over social media before it was censored, the trending topic of the day is a hashtag related to new Covid cases reported in Shanghai....
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‘Hard Isolation’ is Shanghai’s New Word of the Day
While some Shanghai households have already endured weeks of isolation, a new word was added to their epidemic vocabulary today: ‘hard isolation’ or ‘strong quarantine’ (yìng gélí 硬隔离) The word popped...
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Uh Oh, IP: Chinese Social Media Platforms Now Display Users’ Geolocation
Over the past few days, Chinese social media platforms have started to introduce a new function that displays the IP location of online commenters. Weibo was the first platform to introduce the...
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Chinese Netizens Voice Concerns over Molly the Elephant, Call for Animal...
The fate of Molly, an elephant born in the Kunming Zoo and separated from its mother at the age of 2, has become a topic of public debate in China. As viral photos show the elephant being forced to...
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Shanghai ‘Dead Man’ Taken Away to Morgue, Found to Be Alive
An incident in which a Shanghai man, who was thought to be dead, was taken to a funeral home before he was found to be alive has become a big topic on Chinese social media. The incident happened on the...
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Chinese Netizens Respond to ‘Uplifting’ Covid News: “We’re Not That Dumb”
Weibo commenters say they do not know “whether to laugh or to cry” about some state media news items that are desperately trying to turn news about Shanghai’s Covid situation into something...
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China’s ‘Sheep People’: The Stigmatization of Covid Patients
As many people face Covid-related discrimination in China after testing positive, social media users are now speaking out against popular (online) language that refers to Covid patients as ‘sheep,’...
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Would You Like Coffee with Your Sneakers? Chinese Sports Brand Li-Ning...
An unexpected competitor is joining China’s coffee market. With over 7000 stores in the country, Li-Ning has the potential to become the biggest athletic coffee chain yet. Another player is joining...
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