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China Closes Social Media Accounts from Top Outlets, including Harper’s Bazaar

Jun 9, 2017 / News /

The country’s biggest internet companies, including Baidu, Tencent, Youku and NetEase were ordered to shut down accounts that offered celebrity news and gossip. Read More

What Everybody ‘Knows’ About Insta-Star Jing Tian

Mar 28, 2017 / Chinasplaining /

In the vacuum left by the lack of a reliable independent press, Chinese gossip, with its penchant for detailed embellishment and invasive speculation can make TMZ look like The New York Review of Books. Add the Internet into the mix, and it goes to the next level, a web of conspiratorial, celebrity-denigrating innuendo that is wildly judgmental, sexist, and almost impossible to respond to. Read More

China’s Top Social Apps All Owe Thanks to Live Streaming

Feb 1, 2017 / News /

Streaming apps were in and social forums were out for 2016. 2016 was the year of live streaming and played a crucial role in driving growth. All of the top six social apps, except WeChat, have added live streaming services, according to the report jointly published by Cheetah Global Lab, Cheetah’s big data platform libra Read More

China’s Tighter Streaming Regulations Target Social Media

Dec 22, 2016 / News /

Weibo and Weixin specifically are not allowed to rebroadcast material uploaded by their users, but the new rules are designed to prevent individuals and organizations from doing any broadcasting of audio-visual material via these popular social media applications. Read More

Top Chinese Film Animation Boosted by Crowdfunding

Aug 3, 2016 / News /

Film and TV crowdfunding campaigns in China hit around 500 million yuan (U.S.$75 million) in 2015. Read More

Big in China: Western Celebrity Spreads via Social Media Campaigners FansTang

Feb 18, 2016 / News /

The chasm between China’s social media ecosystem—now 650 million online and counting—and the Twitterverse enveloping the rest of the world is not simply cultural. Read More