The tech giant recently announced Wan Streamer, an ultra-realistic AI model that sees, hears, and responds in real time. But is this highly-advanced digital human what Gen Z really wants? Alibaba has ...

RADII explores the unlikely history of Yunnan specialty tea Dianhong, communist-era trade in the 20th century, and Poland’s enduring taste for Chinese black tea. Did you know that since the last ...

The two extremes of coffee now share the same corporate home. This March, Luckin Coffee, China’s most aggressive mass-market caffeine machine, acquired Blue Bottle Coffee, long positioned as the ...

This Chinese chain, which markets itself as Japanese, is rapidly growing from a "two-dollar store" into a retail giant Picture walking down a New York City street, and seeing an enticing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ma Baoguo, the kung fu master who suffered a viral, embarrassing defeat at the hands of a kickboxer, has retired from martial arts In May, legendary tai chi master Ma Baoguo was handily defeated by an ...

As the company eyes an IPO, how much longer will Kuaishou be the go-to short video platform for China's rural population? Dong Yu has worked for a local piano manufacturer for over 25 years. Living in ...

Why more modern moms are opting to “sit the month” based on traditional Chinese medicine Zuo yuezi (坐月子) or “sitting the month,” refers to the month-long period of postpartum confinement traditionally ...

Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what's going on? Toward the end of every year, when China’s magazines, newspapers, and online ...

China's supreme court has sided with the NBA superstar Michael Jordan can finally take a break — China’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the NBA superstar in an eight-year long legal battle with a ...