Online market Taobao has everything you could ever ask for, and in an effort to experience the breadth of its offerings, we ate like five pounds of gummies We Tried is a series where RADII staff try ...

Though some seem to still hold fast to traditional values in regards to women’s rights, others are increasingly fighting back After a netizen made sarcastic remarks about 61-year-old dancer Yang ...

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 ...

Lingering in bed until lunchtime or staying up late to play mobile games is becoming far too common among young Chinese students. But the recent case of a 13-year-old schoolboy in Hangzhou takes ...

The first snow of 2002 Came a little later than before Stopped at the second-rate car on the eighth floor And took away the last fallen yellow leaf So begins Dao Lang’s “The First Snow of 2002,” the ...

Rudolph: Stop calling me names! Reindeer #5: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Santa: [glares at Donner] Donner, you should be ashamed of yourself! What a pity! He had a nice takeoff, too! Comet: [blows ...

Once symbols of a middle-class lifestyle, bookstores like TSUTAYA now struggle to survive. Last week, the iconic Jiangan, Shanghai branch of TSUTAYA bookstore in the MOHO shopping mall closed its ...

Did you know you lose 50% of your body heat through your belly? No? That’s because it’s not true. But you could be forgiven for thinking that was the belief among a certain segment of Chinese society, ...

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 ...

If you felt that Kenny G popping up in Kim Kardashian’s living room last month was some sort of harbinger of end times for us as a species, then you might want to look away now. In Shanghai, a story ...

China is aggressively solidying its foothold in the EV industry and these models are leading the charge China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry has become a global powerhouse, driven by innovation, ...

Feared by some and revered by others, imagery of the snake sparks debate as the symbol of Lunar New Year 2025. In one story from ancient Chinese folklore recounted by Gong Liang, director of the ...