From a hot sauce endorsed by John Cena to a candy gifted to Richard Nixon, here are five items that those in the Chinese diaspora all know — and which the wider world is gradually getting to know as well.
With the Trump administration bearing down on Chinese students, many feel helplessly caught in the crosshairs of a high-level U.S.-China political spat. But not all of them are passively accepting their fate.
A day before TikTok and WeChat were due to be taken off app stores in the U.S., both apps were saved from the ban — TikTok by Trump’s “blessing” of a restructuring deal, and WeChat by a free speech lawsuit. The future of both apps is hard to predict.
“Growing up in an authoritarian system, I regarded cynicism as part of life,” writes Connie Mei Pickart, who became an American citizen six years ago and voted in her first presidential election in 2016. “But in a democratic state, a cynical attitude has far-reaching consequences,” she adds — a lesson she learned the hard way.
Tracking paranoid rhetoric, visa restrictions, and the targeted policing of China-connected research, which combine to create a hostile atmosphere for Chinese people in the U.S.
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From a hot sauce endorsed by John Cena to a candy gifted to Richard Nixon, here are five items that those in the Chinese diaspora all know — and which the wider world is gradually getting to know as well.
In 2014, Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of separatism, despite his relatively moderate stance on questions of Uyghur autonomy. But his truth was too blasphemous — intolerable for China's gatekeepers of history.
At one time, Guo Moruo was at the forefront of Chinese arts and literature, considered a romantic and iconoclast. But all that changed during the Cultural Revolution, when, in the face of persecution, he failed to rise up to the moment.
An Instagram post has gotten former NBA point guard Ty Lawson into hot water in China, but the post itself was tame compared to the racial abuse the player received afterwards.
90 million people are officially members of the Chinese Communist Party. Why have they chosen to take the pledge? And what about those who don’t?
As Hong Kong activists solicit worldwide solidarity for the #BoycottMulan movement and Disney faces growing criticism for shooting much of the movie in Xinjiang, Chinese moviegoers have found different reasons to tear the movie apart.
Goubuli (狗不理 gǒubúlǐ), a Tianjin-based eatery chain that has been in business for more than 150 years, is facing fresh questions over its integrity as it attempts to suppress critical feedback from a disgruntled customer.
As part of China’s national campaign to curb food waste, people are now forbidden to share videos of themselves consuming absurd amounts of food on social media. But some pet owners have taken advantage of the situation to popularize a disturbing genre of viral videos: animals overeating.
An exposé published on September 8 details the exploitative and dehumanizing working conditions faced by Chinese delivery workers on a day-to-day basis. Today Meituan and Ele.me — the top two food delivery services in the country — have responded with open letters to the public, vowing to make significant changes in how they assess employees’ performance and to treat them with more respect.
Some say it feels normal already. Others are hopeful for more change.
