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 ...

A new generation of Shanghai eateries are building menus where the East-West binary melts away into the background. RADII chats with scene. Shanghai has always had a tradition of inviting in the ...

We look at what exactly the artist's monumental new Manchester exhibition highlights, and why it features so many buttons and lego pieces. Ai Weiwei has never been one to shy away from making noise, ...

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 ...

In the pantheon of batshit inanities to issue forth from the mouth and stubby fingers of one Donald J. Trump, the President’s offhand comment earlier this month insinuating that almost all Chinese ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe. If you know nothing about the livestreaming (直播 ...

“It requires time to have the design confidence — to see enough horrifying design interpretations of Chinese culture to actually give you the confidence to say ‘I’m going to speak for China now.’” Lin ...

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, ...

Tea farmers have a saying: “One day leaf, the next day tea.” What they mean by this is that a leaf can be used to make perfectly good tea one day, and the next day it’s useless, just another leaf on ...