A super-popular tea shop brand is getting called out over its advertising One of China’s most popular regional tea shops — the incredibly-named Sexy Tea — is increasingly finding itself under fire on ...

For many companies and their PR departments, March 15 is a day filled with dread. World Consumer Rights Day, often referred to as “315” in China, is marked with glee and schadenfreude for customers, ...

The Wǒ Men Podcast is a discussion of life in China hosted by Yajun Zhang, Jingjing Zhang and Karoline Kan. Previous episodes of the Wǒ Men Podcast can be found here, and you can subscribe to Wǒ Men ...

In celebration of International Record Store Day, which falls on April 21 this year, our photo theme this week is Record Shopping in China. Though vinyl culture never quite caught on China in quite ...

The same song trended under hashtags "sounds bad" and "sounds good" When pop idol Wang Yibo released his new song Xi Wei, he probably didn’t expect to set off an online firefight. When the song went ...

Louis Cha (known by the pen name Jin Yong), a legendary writer reknowned for his work in the historical wuxia genre of kung fu heroes, has passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 94. Though relatively ...

Have the text messages from your ex-lover gone from sad to scary? Need someone to help transport your frail, sickly son-in-law Dudley? Do you possess powerful insider knowledge that could convince ...

The 40th anniversary of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 went largely unnoticed in China, but not so in Vietnam I’ve traveled quite a bit through Southeast Asia this winter. It is evident views of ...

The first snow of 2002 Came a little later than before Stopped at the second-rate car on the eighth floor And took away the last fallen yellow leaf So begins Dao Lang’s “The First Snow of 2002,” the ...

Meet the young designer on a mission to bring Guizhou’s traditional textiles to the wider world What happens when Chinese traditional craftsmanship merges with modern aesthetics? Enter Kinyan Lam, the ...

Rudolph: Stop calling me names! Reindeer #5: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Santa: [glares at Donner] Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself! What a pity! He had a nice takeoff, too! Comet: [blows ...

This week’s photo theme is, well, it’s death. Not because we’re trying to be overly morbid, but because Thursday 5 April is Qingming Festival in China, a day where families traditionally tend to the ...