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 ...

Meet ciggie.app, the world's "most complete catalog of Chinese Cigarette brands, SKUs, and imagery." We explore not just the app itself, but what it signals for what the youth are creatively chasing.

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; ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supported by East West Bank, we highlight the boundary-pushing body of work by China's most extreme contemporary artist. Your body is not your limit. Zhang Huan pushes the boundaries of physicality by ...

The rapper and ex-Rocket Girls group member has inspired many to share their own stories about employer abuse But just two days before their disbandment on July 23, she posted a message and audio ...

Though Darlie's English name changed in the 1980s, its racially-charged Chinese name has remained intact until today Darlie, the Chinese toothpaste brand infamous for its blackface packaging, will ...

While much has changed over the past 10 years in Chinese cinema, much has stayed the same. Here are 10 of our favorite films from the 2010s The list below is part of RADII’s 100 Films to Understand ...

Another year, another intense exam season for high school seniors in China. For some students sitting the exam in 2022, not everything went to plan... Every June, students in their final year of high ...