BEIJING—He’s grinned through countless national TV shows and public appearances, but backstage at a Beijing bookstore, China’s ‘most famous foreigner’ is feeling a little nervous. A minute or so into ...

EastSouthWestNorth blogger Roland Soong translates a humorous post and compares political jokes in the former Soviet Union with those found in China today. The verdict: “[T]he Chinese people are not ...

I have been living and working as a cultural diversity teacher at the Suzhou International Foreign Language School in Suzhou, China, for approximately 13 semesters now. I can honestly say it has truly ...

It transforms the most powerful man in the country into a teddy bear. It adds to the calendar the imaginary date of May 35 to invoke a people’s uprising that government censors seek to erase from ...

At Foreign Policy, Eric Abrahams describes the fall and rise of humour in the People’s Republic: … China’s educational policy and official pronouncements did not stray far from this pattern of value ...

Ryan Chen has turned an uncanny impersonation of President Trump into a social media career, and a mirror of China’s ...