For decades, Jiang Qin’s tiny grocery on Wulumuqi Road supplied Shanghai’s international community with avocados, herbs, and many other imported foods that were once difficult to find. By the late ...

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 ...

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 ...

Splash, Spike, Spin: across volleyball, table tennis, and diving, China’s women athletes are transforming skills and medals into distinctly feminine faces of Chinese soft power. The Hong Kong leg of ...

Chess clubs are turning bars and cafés across Greater China into laid-back social hangouts. Images via Stressless Chess Club. Shenzhen’s Promotion Chess Club at Bar Mine happens every Sunday and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The concept of "little fresh meat" isn't just an import – it has roots in the ancient idea of "wen" masculinity A fantastic example of these two male types in action can be seen in The Longest Day in ...

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 a leaked phone call, Zheng Shuang can be heard saying, “it’s impossible to abort a fetus when it's 7 months old. F*ck!” Actress Zheng Shuang’s intimate personal life has ballooned into a major ...

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 ...

We Tried is a series where RADII staff try out unique foods, experiences, and phenomena in China. Drop us a line if you have a suggestion. In China, there’s more to your average TCM/massage parlor ...