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 ...

Liu Chuanjian — a former Air Force pilot and trainer who became a Sichuan Airlines captain in 2006, after retiring from the CPLA — has been all over Chinese social media and English-language news over ...

Welcome to Snack Kingdom, the massive snack store that boasts 35,000 different snacks from over 70 countries. Imagine floors upon floors of snacks, endless aisles stacked with treats from around the ...

Thanks to popular Taiwanese celeb Pets Tseng's recent appearance in a new reality show, kids are now reviving classic Taiwanese romance dramas, and we're all about it. Taiwanese singer and actress ...

Hong Wang, Yunqing Tang, and Mingjia Zhang are pushing boundaries in math and inspiring the next generation of mathematicians to come. Now, three Chinese women are making headlines in the STEM world.

China’s young people are increasingly drifting into a new kind of emptiness shaped by overbearing work, hyper-convenience, and quiet disillusionment. On Weibo, a simple question cuts through the noise ...

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 ...

The popularity of "Little Fresh Meat" is apparently all down to a CIA operation China’s scientific community has entered the conversation about the wave of fresh-faced, androgynous Chinese male stars ...

LARPing has experienced explosive growth among Chinese youth in the past year. So what is it and why is it so popular? Never heard of LARPing? You’re not alone. Below, we answer the question “What is ...

The Beijing bikini is as iconic (and infamous) as the city it takes its name from. But now, the capital’s inhabitants may have to look elsewhere for that cooling breeze, as lawmakers move to ban the ...

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’s an interesting age we’re in, where unique cultural phenomena (read: memes) can be produced, packaged, exported, reborn, and revised all in the blink of an eye. New Yorker Staff Writer and ...