[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe (Inke). If ...

Is China's extraordinary food delivery system about to face greater government regulation in the wake of an explosive investigation? China’s city-dwellers have gotten used to seeing blue- and ...

While living in a convenience store might seem rather stressful, the FamilyMart employee we spoke with is in surprisingly high spirits From an architectural standpoint, a few things can be defined as ...

My apartment complex just installed a new security system. Now to get into or out of the complex, you need to swipe a key fob over an electronic pad on the gate. To enter our building you need to ...

A super-popular tea shop brand is getting called out over its advertising One of China’s most popular regional tea shops — the incredibly-named Sexy Tea — is increasingly finding itself under fire on ...

In 1793, the British diplomat Lord George Macartney nearly scuttled his trade mission when he famously refused to kowtow to the Qianlong Emperor. When representatives from the Qing court informed ...

Suddenly, China's biggest martial arts organization has joined the fight against kung fu "frauds" The Chinese Wushu Association, the only organization to govern martial arts in China on a national ...

I landed in Taipei 36 hours ago and I’m trying very hard to re-calibrate. This is my first time to Taiwan and I already had a hunch I would like it. There’s a lot to love: Complex characters 繁體字, fast ...

To be honest, my personal experience with Halloween is limited, and not quite typical — my only direct experience with the holiday came when I was working in Washington, D.C., and got to trick or ...

About nine years ago, a few friends of mine had the idea of leading hikes and camping trips up to one of the unrestored — i.e. “wild” — sections of the Great Wall, called Jiankou. Translated as “Arrow ...

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 ...

The app joins other Chinese tech startups to re-approach US listing decisions Just two weeks after ride-hailing giant Didi was taken off Chinese app stores for breaching user privacy laws after a high ...