What’s on Weibo is a reader-supported publication, run by Manya Koetse ( @manyapan ), offering independent analysis of social ...

Dongji Island premiered in cinemas on August 8 and is based on the 1942 Lisbon Maru Incident. The Lisbon Maru was a Japanese ...

From foreign anti-smoking bloggers to the “Modern Lin Zexu,” China is seeing a rise in online anti-smoking activism.

What’s on Weibo is a reader-supported publication, run by Manya Koetse ( @manyapan ), offering independent analysis of social ...

China Society Online Debates About China’s Train Traditions: No More Instant Noodles or Cigarette Breaks? There’s talk of a ‘de-instant-noodling’ of China’s high-speed trains, but many netizens think ...

“We are not friends, and have never been,” is a line that went viral recently in light of the heightened focus on war in Chinese media and popular culture.

This is What's on Weibo's top 3 of what's trending (Aug 12–13): public outrage over a fatal stabbing in Nanchang, the ...

Dear Reader Waiting for Karma in the Maskpark Scandal From Telegram to Shaolin Temple, the two scandals that rocked Chinese social media this week.

These days have been filled with tension and anger in the city of Jiangyou (江油市), Sichuan, after a rare, large-scale protest broke out following public outrage over a severe bullying incident and how ...