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How Netizens Adapt Lu Xun to Modern Problems
What if the renowned 20th-century writer was alive to splurge on Singles’ Day?
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How Gen Z is Changing Work Culture...by Speaking Up
Challenging everything from overtime work to abusive bosses, can China’s “post-00s” really rewrite workplace norms?
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Netizen Takes on Fallen Celebs
When police detained Li Yifeng, his fans took to social media to vent
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“Retreat!”—Chinese Netizens’ New Catchphrase Against Frustration
How netizens are repurposing a “spell” from middle-aged aunties to ward off daily evils
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Turtle Eggs and Scorpion Hearts: The Colorful World of Chinese Cursing
Discover China’s favorite swear words and their cultural contexts
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‘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
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Getting Mouthy: How Chinese Netizens Made Memes from Censorship
Why is the internet full of the character 口 (mouth)?
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Beijing’s Outbreak Spawns Even More Covid Slang
As Covid prevention policies roll on, so too do online slang and memes
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Memes and Slang From the Shanghai Lockdown
Group-buying chiefs, vegetable storing guides, the Covid calendar, and “hard currency” cola—learn the internet slang inspired by the Shanghai lockdown
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How Netizens Adapt Classic Literature to the Covid Age
Literary-minded social media posters are adapting famous works for the Covid-19 era
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Deciphering “Bullet” Comments Online
Learn the slang that peppers Bilibili’s “bullet curtain”
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The Online Slang of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Learn some of the Winter Olympics slang popular with Chineses netizens
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