Last September, a student at Beijing’s élite Tsinghua University was caught on video riding his bike at night and working on a laptop propped on his handlebars. The footage circulated on Chinese ...

The buzzword – which went viral after a student was filmed working on his laptop while riding his bicycle – reflects a mix of competitiveness and hopelessness amid China’s slowing economy On the ...

Gaoyuan Liu’s suggestion to compare answers was rejected outright after a difficult math exam. “Don’t involute yourself,” her classmates told her. Gaoyuan Liu, an LSA transfer student who then studied ...

Over the past few months, Chinese people from all walks of life, be they software developers, stay-at-home moms, or elite university students, have all discovered their daily lives can be accurately ...

Browse Chinese social media and you will notice an intriguing development: posts and comments by young Chinese internet users are becoming increasingly academic. We often see abstruse terms in Chinese ...