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 ...

It's PUBG, but IRL, and played at shopping malls. Discover how these immersive augmented reality arenas for epic battle royale games are now a thing in China. In a fascinating twist on urban ...

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, ...

In celebration of International Record Store Day, which falls on April 21 this year, our photo theme this week is Record Shopping in China. Though vinyl culture never quite caught on China in quite ...

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; ...

From ranking everything 'excellent to lame' to dramatically demanding a card check, this is RADII 's latest dive into the freshest slang capturing the pulse of China's Gen Z. Then there’s Wǒ Yào Yàn ...

From iPhones to AI chatbots, a Taobao shop is revolutionizing traditional Chinese paper offerings for the Qingming Festival, bridging the digital divide for the departed in a truly surreal way. One of ...

Celebrating 45 years in Hong Kong, the convenience store giant teams up with GrowthRing & Supply and BeCandle for a workwear and fragrance collection that's serving serious retro vibes. Forget what ...

From Kingston’s hardware stores to the streets of London, Chinese-Jamaican pioneer Tom Wong helped engineer the DNA of modern dance music. Even if electronic music isn’t your cup of tea, you’ve most ...

Created centuries ago in Hunan Province, nüshu is making a come back thanks to the women of today. Did you know there is still a language that was created and used exclusively by one gender? It’s ...

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 ...