China has a thriving gaming culture with far-reaching impact, not just on pop culture, but also on language – even those who are not into the world of gaming with inevitably use language associated ...

Ruixin is a Leiden University graduate, specializing in China and Tibetan Studies. As a cultural researcher familiar with ...

The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on Chinese social media since it ...

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In recent years, China’s netizens have been paying closer attention to so-called “nepo babies”—the children of the rich and powerful whose success often seems tied more to family connections than to ...

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A Love Never Lost: The Historical Drama That Took Five Years (and a Run-In with Censors) to Finally Air The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on ...