Rogue Historian is a weekly column by Jeremiah Jenne, a writer, educator, and historian based in Beijing. Find more of his writing at Jottings from the Granite Studio. If it’s summer, it must be time ...

Thanks to TikTok, a Mandarin language song from the ’80s is now bringing together Chinese aunties and Norwegian teens. A 1983 classic, “Yi Jian Mei 一剪梅” — literally “A Spray of Plum Blossoms” — was ...

Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced on Sunday that his research team had successfully engineered the first genetically-edited human babies in the world. The genes of the twin girls born this month ...

The traditional expat image is changing in China, as the Wo Men Podcast team discover with Katharina Kempf In recent years more and more people from all over the world visit, study and live in China.

When representation fought back: how the Lee family revolutionized early American cinema. In an era when Hollywood’s idea of Asian representation was yellowface and racist caricatures, the Lee family ...

Earlier this month, the Cambridge University Press (CUP), publisher of the China Quarterly, one of the most important journals for scholarship on Modern China, announced that it was removing 300 ...

Because of course you can. Waimai (delivery) giant Ele.me announced yesterday that it’d been granted approval by authorities in the Jinshan district of Shanghai to operate the first commercial drone ...

Set to launch in 16 countries, the Firefly takes aim at the MINI and Renault 5 with a much lower price. NIO, a Chinese EV manufacturer, has unveiled its latest line: the Firefly. The debut model ...

An all-ages get-together with rock music, traditional performances, heritage-inspired outfits and more, all happening on May 23-24. Music festivals in China have increasingly become arenas for ...

We've heard the predictions, concepts and prior testing. Now we've got a new Hyperloop update, and it's pretty impressive. In a world where everyone’s racing to make shit go faster, China might have ...

“Flash marriages,” secret CEOs, revenge fantasies, and taboo romances are some of the most popular (and addictive) Chinese microdrama tropes. Fast-paced and addictive, microdramas have dominated ...