For college students in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, it was a brief moment of freedom: a short-lived craze for cycling overnight on ride-share rental bikes to the nearby city of Kaifeng for a bit of fun, food, and...
“It’s as if the words ‘layoffs’ and ‘unemployment’ are somehow disgraceful, so instead people insist on using euphemisms such as ‘flexible employment,’ ‘[workforce] optimization,’ ‘slow employment’ (also ‘delayed employment’),...
Some communities in Shanghai have embraced the viral trend of commissioning videos of dancing Africans sending well-wishes to Chinese residents in lockdown. The videos often feature groups of children or muscular African men...
Social media platform Weibo has once again been targeted by Chinese regulators for failing to...
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
Patrick Boehler at SCMP reports on new research which states that Sina Weibo’s outreach may...
David Goldenberg at The New Yorker looks at a relatively recent social media phenomenon in China...
Punning is a long established part of Chinese culture which has found fertile new soil online. Often, the focus falls on wordplay used to circumvent political censorship, of which examples can be found in CDT’s Grass Mud...
The minister of the State Council Information Office, Wang Chen, emphasized netizens’ roles in maintaining the safety of the Internet at the Forum on Internet Media of China in Chongqing on Friday. From China Daily:...
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