Part of Eye on Digital China, Signals highlights slower trends and underlying shifts, connecting the dots beyond the daily ...

Eye on Digital China is an independent publication by sinologist and China trend watcher Manya Koetse, offering analysis and ...

🛵 As Ele.me (China’s No.2 food-delivery platform) rebrands to “Taobao Flash Delivery” (淘宝闪购), competitor Meituan used it as ...

Russian recruitment ads, China’s censorship, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. Recently, news broke that two Chinese nationals were captured by ...

China’s Xiaohongshu (Rednote) has seen an unprecedented influx of foreign “TikTok refugees” over the past week, giving rise to endless jokes. But behind this unexpected online migration lie some ...

Our Weibo phrase of the week is City bu City a (City不City啊), translated as “City or not?”, a phrase that has recently taken the Chinese internet by storm. The phrase first became popular thanks to ...

Some Chinese nursing homes are evolving into sought-after havens where China’s younger people can “lie flat” without worrying about meals and household chores, while enjoying a high-quality lifestyle.

A Changsha restaurant employee who intervened when a mother beat her child ended up paying the price for it. The story of a restaurant employee who had to pay the price for sharing a video of a mother ...

What looks like a professional photoshoot in a fashion magazine, is actually a local photo service found in one of China’s many popular tourist destinations. Dressing up as various ethnic minorities ...