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Dec 10, 2024 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
This story is still being updatedOnce a promising Master’s graduate in Engineering, Ms. Bu went missing for 13.5 years. Her return marks the end of her family’s long search, but it is the beginning of an online movement. Chinese netizens are not only demanding answers about how she could have remained missing for so long but also want clarity about the puzzling inconsistencies in her story.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
PREMIUM CONTENTFrom city marketing to the spirit of China’s new generation, there are many themes behind the recent Zhengzhou trend of thousands of students cycling to Kaifeng overnight. The term ‘yè qí‘ (夜骑), meaning “night ride,” has recently become a buzzword on Chinese social media.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
wmagazine.com | Nancy MacDonell |Miranda Barnes
Designer Colleen Allen in a look from her debut collection. Looking back on her initial resistance to creating clothes for women, former menswear designer Colleen Allen laughs. When she was working at The Row, she says, “they asked me to design women’s, and I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to do that!’ I was very rigid. I felt like everything had been said in women’s and there was more to say in men’s. But, eventually, there was an itch at the back of my brain.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
It has been ten years since the Chinese “facekini”—a head garment worn by Chinese ‘aunties’ at the beach or swimming pool to prevent sunburn—went international. Although the facekini’s debut in French fashion magazines did not lead to an international craze, it did turn the term “facekini” (脸基尼), coined in 2012, into an internationally recognized word. In recent years, China has seen a rise in anti-tan, sun-protection garments.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | M. H. Miller |Miranda Barnes
Generations of creatives once flocked to the city seeking affordable rent. Now, despite skyrocketing real estate prices, some continue to carve out studio spaces of their own. Credit... New York's reputation as a beacon for artists was never inevitable. Only after World War II had destabilized Europe was the city able to usurp Paris as the commercial center of the art business.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Ruixin Zhang |Miranda Barnes
There is one topic that has been dominating Chinese social media recently: Harbin and its remarkable influx of tourists. How can the buzz surrounding this frosty city be explained? The new year has just started and Harbin already seems to be the hit of 2024. The capital of China’s Heilongjiang Province, which is famous for its Ice and Snow Festival and Russian heritage, has been dominating trending topics on Chinese social media from late December well into this second week of January.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Miranda Barnes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save — STANDALONE PHOTO FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH YEAREND REVIEWS — Debutantes and their escorts at the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation’s annual ball in Detroit on April 21, 2023. The debutante ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
A dedicated lottery player in China defied mathematical odds last week by winning 220 million yuan, approximately US$30.6 million, by purchasing about 50,000 lottery tickets with the same number. The man, a resident of Nanchang in Jiangxi province, invested a whopping 100,000 RMB (nearly $14,000) on December 2 to purchase tickets for the Chinese ‘Happy 8’ (快乐8) lottery from multiple stores across the city.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
The medical rescue of a critically injured Shanghai woman in Tibet has recently triggered major controversy on Chinese social media after netizens suspected that the woman’s treatment may have been facilitated through the abuse of power. What was supposed to be a romantic honeymoon getaway turned into a nightmare for newlyweds Yu Yanyan (27, 余言言) and her husband Tao Li (29, 陶立). On October 14, just two weeks after their wedding, the couple from Shanghai was driving on China’s National Highway 219.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
whatsonweibo.com | Manya Koetse |Miranda Barnes
A Beijing food vendor, affectionately known as ‘Auntie Goose Legs,’ has become a viral sensation after becoming super popular among the city’s student community. However, this beloved ‘auntie’ has caused quite a commotion recently after relocating her stall, triggering debates among local students over which university she truly ‘belongs’ to. This winter, students at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University are all craving hot, roasted goose legs.
