NBC News is not naming the author of this piece to protect their security and that of their family. HONG KONG — Ventus Lau and Emilia Wong see each other for 15 minutes at a ...
A comment widely circulated across various Chinese social-media platforms in recent days depicts the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a romantic triangle: Ukraine is characterized as Russia’s ex-wife, who mistreated the couple’s two children—the breakaway pro-Moscow regions ...
When LinkedIn, the last major U.S. social media platform to operate in China, announced last month that it was leaving the country, its departure was seen as the final rupture between U.S. and Chinese social ...
From last fall, in an extension of a personality cult not seen since Mao Zedong, “Xi Jinping Thought” is being incorporated into China’s national curriculum. School textbooks are emblazoned with Xi’s smiling face, together with ...
HONG KONG – A Taiwanese American star known as the King of Chinese Pop is in free fall amid a chaotic public divorce being discussed in the Chinese-speaking world. Singer Wang Leehom, 45, was born ...
Speedskating trials last October in Beijing, a controversial choice as host city for the 2022 Winter Games (Lintao Zhang/International Skating Union/Getty Images) The Olympic flame-lighting ceremony was underway at the Temple of Hera, the oldest ...
The central theses: Nanjing-based brand Shein recently overtook Zara and is approaching H&M as one of the world’s largest fast fashion brands. The brand’s success is largely down to its internet-viral social media strategy, which ...
Since childhood, the 20-year-old student had wanted to join the longest-running and largest communist party in the world, having grown up hearing “red tales” of its revolutionary past from her family. In recent years, as ...
HONG KONG – Facebook Inc. is banned in China, but Beijing is a big user of the platform to spread its political views to hundreds of millions of people overseas, sometimes through advertisements. Now, some ...
When Vladimir Lenin was asked, according to legend, how he would “hang up all capitalists” in view of the shortage of rope in the young Soviet Union, he replied “don’t worry, comrade, the capitalists will ...
