Meet the Siberian Weasel, China's Urban Rat Catcher

Shanghai’s number one rat catcher

by Ned Kelly, 22 April 2021

Explainer: Why China Doesn't Have Daylight Savings Time

China won't be moving the clocks ahead an hour this weekend, but at one point in time it used to.

by Bridget O'Donnell, 11 March 2017

This Day in History: The Chain-Smoking Socialite & the Panda

And the incredible story of the American socialite who became the first person to bring a giant panda to the US.

by That's, 09 November 2021

Chef Austin Hu on Mental Health and Kitchen Life in Wake of Bourdain Suicide

Anthony Bourdain's death and mental health in the culinary world.

by Austin Hu, 09 June 2018

Shanghai's Infamous Ward Road Gaol – The Alcatraz of the Orient

Conditions inside the Gaol were considered to be some of the harshest in the world.

by Ned Kelly, 18 May 2021

The dark history of Darlie Toothpaste

Learning to read Chinese is filled with surprises, but nothing prepares one for decoding the characters on a tube of Darlie Toothpaste (黑人牙膏), which literally translates as ‘Black...

by That's PRD, 09 July 2015

This Day in History: China's Otherworldly 'Alien Sky Spiral' of 1981

A giant spiral in the sky, a spiral allegedly seen by 10 million people in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

by Matthew Bossons, 23 July 2021

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