A look back at the three major phases of China’s social media — and why What’s on Weibo is evolving into Eye on Digital China ...

Part of Eye on Digital China, Signals highlights slower trends and underlying shifts, connecting the dots beyond the daily ...

Eye on Digital China is an independent publication by sinologist and China trend watcher Manya Koetse, offering analysis and ...

This is a topic that has sparked outrage and continued discussion in China over the past weeks. On September 19, a major ...

For the coming two weeks, I’ll be traveling from Beijing to Chongqing and beyond (more on that soon) so please bear with me if my posting frequency dips a little. I’ll be sure to pick it up again soon ...

Following online protest and the efforts of animal activists, Molly has returned to the Kunming Zoo where she was born and where mother elephant Mopo is. The little elephant named Molly is a big topic ...

Manya is the founder and editor-in-chief of What's on Weibo, offering independent analysis of social trends, online media, and digital culture in China for over a decade. Subscribe to gain access to ...

“China’s countermeasures are here” (#中方反制措施来了#). This hashtag, launched by Party newspaper People’s Daily, went top trending on Chinese social media on Friday, April 4, after President Trump announced ...

The author suggests that comparing Singapore a small county in contrast to the giant nation that is China not only reflects negatively on Singapore but also on the Chinese individuals who use this ...