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Videos of fashionistas casually walking down China’s shopping districts have renewed interest in Chinese street fashion. Far from spontaneous, they’re the products of e-commerce.

The highest-grossing film of the year is a Chinese war movie about the second Sino-Japanese war, but the heroes this time are not the Communists.

Young people in East Asia have embraced tattoos, but many still see the body art in an unflattering light due to the Confucian value of filial piety and tattoos’ connotation with crime and punishment.

Set to open in spring, a Washington museum aims to cut through stereotypes and highlight Chinese-American contributions to the very fabric of the United States.

China became the world’s manufacturing hub thanks to cheap labor and abundant resources. But now that China is becoming more expensive, businesses are looking elsewhere, particularly to Southeast Asia. 

Trump’s appeal to liberal Chinese thinkers in China and the United States is rooted in antagonism and trauma, experts say.

Many Chinese internet users are reacting to Donald Trump’s positive Covid-19 test result with ridicule and glee.

Foreign domestic helpers provide essential services and care to many Hong Kong households, but many have to live in cramped spaces and suffer from discrimination and even abuse.

The #PresidentialDebate2020 was a controversial affair full of interruptions and name-calling. On China, Trump blamed the country for America’s economic woes

China says its Confucius Institutes are a “bridge reinforcing friendship” between it and the rest of the world, but these educational outlets are facing increasing scrutiny amid claims they are spreading propaganda, extending Chinese censorship and even conducting espionage.

Cryonics involves freezing a human body with the hope to revive them later. One scientist thinks China is set to lead the world.

Egg tarts are widely associated with the Portuguese because of their popularity in Macau, but historians think the pastry’s history is British. 

China’s efforts to promote Mandarin as the national language for 1.4 billion people have met resistance in parts of the country.

The basketball league’s relationship with China has been increasingly politicized amid its increasing support for social justice movements at home.

The owner of Nongfu Spring recently took his bottled water company public, and in the process became China’s second-richest man.

The outcome of November's vote could have a major impact on the lives of many Chinese people living in the US. But few believe a Biden victory will bring things back to the way they were before. 

China claims 1.3 million Xinjiang residents have been given “vocational training” each year. Observers said it could be the first time the authorities “indirectly” confirmed the scale of the internment facilities targeting Uygurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities.

The Chinese military raised their combat readiness to the second-highest possible level last week after an exchange of gunfire with Indian troops on their disputed border, sources told the South China Morning Post.

China heard the first child custody lawsuit between a same-sex couple. And the police acquitted a fruit vendor who injured a law enforcer with a knife.

In a tweet, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Terry Branstad for serving as ambassador to China since 2017. Beijing said it had not been informed of Branstad departure.