STREET TALK

How Chinese Netizens Navigated the Lunar New Year

Despite challenges like packed trains and nosy relatives, young Chinese used creative ways to ensure a peaceful Lunar New Year at home

STREET TALK

Learn Chinese Greetings Perfect for the Year of the Dragon

Use puns, poems, and memes to welcome in the Year of the Dragon

STREET TALK

China’s Netizens Hate Make-Up Workdays With a Passion

China’s netizens come up with creative ways to bemoan mandated workdays around holidays

STREET TALK

All the Single Netizens: Young Chinese Reclaim Insults About Their Romantic Status Online

Single dogs, lonely frogs, and other ways young Chinese singles creatively express loneliness, jealously, or even contentment online

STREET TALK

Greet the Lunar New Year with a Gen Z Twist

How netizens are giving modern makeovers to traditional New Year greetings

STREET TALK

Staying Negative: New Covid Policies Bring Memes Aplenty

The Chinese internet has exploded with people sharing their positive Covid-19 tests, and joking about what to do next

SOCIETY

The Crazy Ways Chinese College Students Stay Sane

Cardboard dogs, crawling, crazy talk: Discover the bizarre methods locked-down students use to ease anxiety

STREET TALK

How Netizens Adapt Lu Xun to Modern Problems

What if the renowned 20th-century writer was alive to splurge on Singles’ Day?

SOCIAL CHINESE

One BBQ Chicken With Milk, Please: Chinese Gamer Slang Today

How gamer slang has pervaded the speech of China’s Gen Z

STREET TALK

‘Hottest’ Slang of a Record-Breaking Summer

Faced with extreme temperatures all over China and the world, netizens have invented new ways to complain about the heat