Blog Tag - Weibo

Trending in Beijing: Water Cube Turns Ice Cube, Nervous Breakdowns, and Lab Explosion
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Trending in Beijing: Bookstore Stalkers, Fluent in Mandarin Foreigners, and Care for Grandma
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Trending in Beijing: Heart Warming Taxi Drivers, TF Boys' Mischief, and Money Allowances
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
DP:Trending in Beijing: Fat Shaming, Drug Busts, and Generation Z Issues
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Trending in Beijing: Hot Pot Quests, Fully Electronic Train Tickets, and D&G Landslide
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Now Urine Trouble: 'Racist' Instagram Post by the Rosewood Hotel Manager Incenses Netizens
Less than a week after a video depicting maids in top Beijing luxury hotels failing proper cleaning practices went viral, another hotel scandal has...
Trending in Beijing: Kudos for Kuaidi, Another 5-Star Hotel Hygiene Offence, and a Space Kindergarten
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
Weibo isn't Dead. It’s China's Public Square
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Weibo, one of China’s most popular social platforms, has been frequently compared to...
Weibo Brings Back Sanitized Version of Trending Topics
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. After a week’s suspension due to the government crackdown, Sina Weibo’s trending...
Weibo and WeChat Allow Editing of Sent Messages, Answering of WeChat Calls in Lock Screen
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Almost simultaneously, Sina Weibo and WeChat now allow users to edit already-sent...
Weibo Helped Online Influencers Earn RMB 20 Billion This Year
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Latest numbers show that Weibo, China’s leading social media company, continues to...
Victim Details Her Story of Plane Molestation, Beijing Tech Boss Perpetrator Released
The woman involved in the sexual molestation case that landed a Beijing high-tech executive in jail for five days says she's just a student seeking...
WeChat, Others targeted in Monthlong Crackdown as Users Complain of Social Media Fatigue
Popular social messaging service WeChat is among the services being targeted in a month-long government crackdown on rumors, fraud, porn, violence...
Jia Zhangke on How Weibo Influenced A Touch of Sin
Jia Zhangke's (Pickpocket, Unknown Pleasures, 24 City) currently banned A Touch of Sin recreated events he found on Weibo as the basis for the four...
Humans of New York Goes Viral in China
Don’t be so quick to judge a book by its cover, indeed one New York City photographer has shown us how one book, and one very popular blog, can...