With OpenAI's Sora stepping back, China's new wave of hyper-realistic AI video models like Seedance 2.0 aren't just creating cool clips—they're rewriting the rules of global soft power. For almost a ...

A 50-minute finish, falling droids, and what a 12,000-person co-run means for Gen Z's complex relationship with our AI future. Robots ran a half-marathon in Beijing last weekend, and let’s just say ...

Beneath the curated smiles and online personas, a generation grapples with unprecedented pressures, often masking their deepest anxieties in a phenomenon akin to 'smiling depression.' For many, ...

Hong Kong legends return for the highly anticipated prequel, Cold War 1994, which will take us back to the origins of the acclaimed crime-thriller franchise. Directed by Longman Leung (Helios 2015; ...

This Qixi Festival, singles have been using the meme to express romantic defeatism Chinese social media has been overflowing with images of Pepe the Frog, also known as the “sad frog meme,” to the ...

The latest season of SDC invited top dancers from all over the world, including ACKY and the Gogo Brothers from Japan, Poppin’C from Switzerland, and Bouboo from France, to compete with Chinese ...

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 ...

The Beijing bikini is as iconic (and infamous) as the city it takes its name from. But now, the capital’s inhabitants may have to look elsewhere for that cooling breeze, as lawmakers move to ban the ...

From writers who took on the patriarchy to comedians pushing back against misogynistic treatment - here are 8 outstanding women to know March 8 is International Women’s Day, “a global day celebrating ...

Why did they build it? Did it work? Is it true the Chinese tried to get the Mongolians to pay for it? Donald Trump’s efforts to build a border wall – not a fence, he wants us to know, but a wall – ...

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, ...

The popularity of "Little Fresh Meat" is apparently all down to a CIA operation China’s scientific community has entered the conversation about the wave of fresh-faced, androgynous Chinese male stars ...