Turnout among Asian Americans in Georgia was way up in the 2020 presidential election, meaning the Democratic-leaning demographic contributed to Biden’s win in the state. Chinese-American activists are now mobilizing again ahead of the January Senate runoffs.
Last month, the charity MercyHK invited Hong Kong's homeless to a screening of the award-winning movie "I'm Living It," which dramatizes the plight of the Hong Kong's down and out. For many of the attendees, the film was a long-overdue respite from the outside world, albeit a tragic and melodramatic one.
As elsewhere, people in China endured months-long COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions partly with the help of the internet, where memes provided distraction from quarantine life, old phrases acquired new meaning, and self-deprecating jokes became an outlet for collective distress.
No knives necessary today. If possible, try buying the cucumber-long purple Asian eggplant for this recipe, because they’re softer and more easily torn, by hand. The result is more natural, artful, and tasty.
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.
The 100 China books you have to read, ranked.
A song for each year of the People’s Republic of China: An attempt to distill the many diverse, fascinating currents of music in mainland China over the last 70 years into a primer.
SupChina’s guide to the best of China Twitter in English.
No knives necessary today. If possible, try buying the cucumber-long purple Asian eggplant for this recipe, because they’re softer and more easily torn, by hand. The result is more natural, artful, and tasty.
This Week in China's History looks at an outhouse murder of 1721, a case that would have been lost to history — along with all the interesting lessons it offers about 18th-century Qing society — if not for China’s deep and broad archival record. That record, unfortunately, is currently under threat.
Traditional Chinese medicine takes a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. Practitioners believe in balance and using ingredients — such as the ones below — to calibrate their bodies for optimal disease-prevention.
What are the ingredients of a bad emperor? This week, a special edition of Chinese Lives takes a look at the characteristics of three particularly bad rulers.
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?
The controversy erupted earlier this week when a clip of the interview began circulating on Weibo. Speaking to a reporter from the Red Star News, Zhāng Guìméi 张桂梅, an outspoken activist for the rights of girls to receive an education, shared a story of how she rejected a sizable donation from a former student because she was a stay-at-home mom by choice.
Compared with traditional Chinese forms of comedy like sketch shows or crosstalk, Western-imported stand-up comedy is emerging as an art form that is more female-friendly. And women are taking advantage.
Japanese computer game company Nintendo has made some changes to its popular Pokémon game, apparently to appease Chinese censors.
McDonald's was not the only major chain in Shenzhen to make single-use foodware a target of elimination. But unlike other companies such as Starbucks, which provide reusable alternatives such as metal straws and stainless steel forks for customers dining in, McDonald's does not offer reusable utensils for in-restaurant meals.
We talk to lawyers, academics and victims of the China Initiative for their perspective.
