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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soon after his suicide in 1989 at the age of 25, Hai Zi’s poems about nature, loneliness, and the fleeting nature of yearning and happiness began inspiring a generation of steadfast, fiercely ...

New York State has announced the official creation of "China Day" Don’t get yours hopes up kids, you still have to go to school for this one! But it looks like we can add “China Day” to a long list of ...

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 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 ...

A new month, a new Chinese AI model. Z.ai’s latest LLM proves yet again that powerful AI doesn't have to cost billions, but can the East finally outpace the West in the global tech race? For a while, ...

Toy Story 5’s China comeback is playing out as a three-act campaign across sky, screen, and street, built less on shouting for attention than on showing cultural fluency. Toy Story 5 returns to China ...

No time to walk a dog? No room for a cat? How about raising a mango pit as your pet? Check out all the creative ways Chinese youth are "dressing" their furry little friends. Recently, a growing ...

As China grows more competitive, Gen Z’s “lying flat” mindset reveals the hidden emotional cost behind the country’s economic rise. Imagine this: A Gen Z office worker shuts their laptop at 9 PM, then ...