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Sichuan Power Cut: From Dinner by Candlelight to Farm Chickens Dying
Some cities and regions in China are turning off lights and locally cutting off power as part of a summer peak plan to save power. The past two days, it was not just Shanghai’s Bund area that stayed...
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“True Heroes of the City”: Sparks of Patriotism as Firefighters Contain...
Chinese social media is flooding with posts praising the “heroes of the city”: all the firefighters, officers, soldiers, and Chinese citizens who fought ‘fire with fire’ and joined hands in combating...
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Foreigner Clashes with Chinese Security Guards for Not Wearing Mask at Park...
A clash between a foreigner and security guards in Taiyuan has attracted the attention of Chinese netizens this weekend, with the Weibo hashtag “Foreigner Expelled from Park for not Wearing Mask”...
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Chengdu City-Wide ‘Lockdown’ Sparks Panic Buying and Worries
“All Chengdu Residents are to Stay Home from 6pm Today” (#成都今日18时起全体居民原则居家#) is the hashtag that is trending on Weibo today, receiving over 670 million clicks by Thursdaynight. In light of rising Covid...
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Quiet Streets and Well-Stocked Shelves on Second Day of Chengdu Lockdown
After the pre-lockdown chaos, some sense of calm has been restored in the city of Chengdu. But despite relief over well-stocked supermarket shelves, Chengdu-based social media users also express...
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Did This TikToker Find Unseen Nanjing Massacre Photos? Regardless, Chinese...
Did an American pawn shop owner find unseen photos of the Nanjing Massacre? As his Tiktok video is going viral online, Chinese netizens are shocked to find how little Western social media users know...
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“I Decided Not To Learn English Anymore” Video Goes Viral on Chinese Social...
A video in which a Chinese Harvard student shares how she wants to “stop trying to learn English” has gone viral on Chinese social media. While some blame the student for flaunting her privilege,...
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This Company in Shenzhen Won’t Hire People Who Bring ‘Bad Luck’
An education company located in Shenzhen went trending on Weibo after its director demanded that new employees’ phone numbers cannot have the number ‘5’ as the 5th digit, based on the superstition that...
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Young Chinese Woman Dies at Haidilao Hotpot Restaurant
On September 8, a woman from Putian in Fujian Province unexpectedly passed away while having hotpot at a Haidilao restaurant in a local mall. The incident went trending on Chinese social media on...
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Courage, Camaraderie, and Criticism: The 2022 Sichuan Earthquake on Chinese...
These are the hashtags and online stories that are shared on Chinese social media this week during the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in China’s Sichuan. On Monday September 5, at 12:52 local...
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“We Want To Be Trending”– Online Cries for Help from Locked Down Yili in...
While all eyes have been on Chengdu as the city of 21 million has been in semi-lockdown since September 1st, netizens from locked-down areas in Yili, Xinjiang, are begging for help and are reaching out...
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Chinese Actor and State Security Ambassador Li Yifeng Detained for Soliciting...
Chinese actor and singer Li Yifeng (李易峰) went top trending on Chinese social media today. The actor, who previously starred as brand ambassador for the Ministry of State Security and played Mao Zedong...
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Happiest Lockdown in China: Guests Undergo Mandatory Quarantine at Shanghai...
While many cities across China are experiencing new (partial) lockdowns and millions of people are confined to their homes, there was also a group of people that had to undergo mandatory quarantine at...
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Residents in Locked Down Lhasa Say Local Epidemic Situation is a “Giant Mess”
They’ve been in lockdown for 42 days already, but according to some Lhasa-based bloggers, there have been no improvements in the local epidemic situation. They say there is a stark difference between...
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About Lipstick King’s Comeback and His ‘Mysterious’ Disappearance
Earlier this week, the return of China’s famous livestreamer Li Jiaqi, also known as the ‘Lipstick King’, became a hot topic on Chinese social media where his three-month ‘disappearance’ from the...
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No Hashtags for Mahsa Amini on Chinese Social Media
While the death of Mahsa Amini and the unrest in Iran is a major news story worldwide, the incident and its aftermath received relatively little attention in Chinese media, where the narrative is more...
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Weibo Discussions: What is the Way Forward for China’s Zero-Covid Policy?
Over the past few weeks, while various regions across China have been dealing with a surge in new Covid cases and ongoing local lockdowns, there have been more online discussions regarding the future...
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How Made-in-China ‘Magical’ Winter Essentials Are Keeping Europeans Warm Amid...
Chinese companies are profiting from Europe’s energy crisis. Made-in-China electric blankets, electric kettles, sleeping bags, and hot water bottles are flying off the shelves and Chinese factories are...
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The Price is Not Right: Corn Controversy Takes over Chinese Social Media
Recently there have been fierce discussions on Chinese social media about the price of corn after e-commerce platform Oriental Selection (东方甄选) started selling ears of corn for 6 yuan ($0.80) per...
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Chinese Movie ‘Home Coming’ Becomes National Day Box Office Hit
China has got another patriotic box office hit this National Day holiday. ‘Home Coming’ (万里归途) is inspired by China’s overseas citizens protection response during the 2011 Libya crisis, and is sparking...
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