While this year is an off-year for major celebrations, the Party – including the Rejuvenator-in-Chief – has been busy going retro. Now, I’m a big fan of retro. Tiki drinks. Shag carpets. The music of ...

In the pantheon of batshit inanities to issue forth from the mouth and stubby fingers of one Donald J. Trump, the President’s offhand comment earlier this month insinuating that almost all Chinese ...

How does "Nothing But Thirty" hold up in China's feminist television awakening? So does Nothing But Thirty mark a breaking of new ground for feminist narratives in the mainstream, or are its themes ...

This Qixi Festival, singles have been using the meme to express romantic defeatism Chinese social media has been overflowing with images of Pepe the Frog, also known as the “sad frog meme,” to the ...

Ximalaya invited top voice actors from the Chinese dubbing agency Voicegem to record the Mandarin-language version of the ‘Harry Potter’ audiobooks Tuesday, June 21, will see Harry Potter and the ...

A Tibetan boy from Litang has been catapulted to internet fame in recent weeks It’s been a month since Tibetan boy Ding Zhen first hit social media, but discussions over him and every aspect of his ...

The Bronze Man, a thousand-year-old teaching implement, helps us visualize some of TCM's most important health practices What if there was more to see on the surface of the body than just skin? Enter ...

Recent incidents on iQIYI's major music variety shows have thrust so-called "dialect music" back into the spotlight One of the most upvoted comments under his post implied that the show was out of ...

As China's reality-show-pop-music industrial complex churns on, can iQIYI repeat the hype it created around last year's readymade boy band NINE PERCENT? China hasn’t been immune to the wave of pop ...

Yin (音, “music”) is a weekly Radii feature that looks at Chinese songs spanning classical to folk to modern experimental, and everything in between. Drop us a line if you have a suggestion. Re-TROS, ...

Documentary “We Were Smart” sheds light on the shunned subculture shamate and China’s urban-rural gulf Focused largely around rural migrant workers who’d travelled to China’s cities to get in on, and ...

Though some seem to still hold fast to traditional values in regards to women’s rights, others are increasingly fighting back After a netizen made sarcastic remarks about 61-year-old dancer Yang ...