Chicken soup for the soul: the weird universe of Tiktok wisdom
Self-help content with Chinese characteristics is the latest Douyin craze: why are Chinese users craving “Chicken Soup for the Soul”?
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Amarsanaa Battulga
Do religious ghosts dream of supernatural time travel?
Horror-themed escape rooms have been all the rage in China for a while, but there is simply no room for such superstition in Chinese cinemas
Will Vagari
Christian beliefs for modern Chinese minds: how come is this imported religion thriving?
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in China. Why is this dogma resonating with Chinese people?
Caterina Paiva
Mao keeping track of the God of Fortune, or how Mao Zedong's iconography made space into fortune
Mao’s iconography might be the most used image to represent the PRC. But what about PRC’s fortune 运?
Luis Matte Diaz
A contemporary need of 道 (Dao)
A call to go back to a more natural Dao and align with the essential things of life, rather than the ephemeral concerns of our modernity.
Beatrice Tamagno
Between stigma and taboos: the sorrows of being a menstruator in China
Menstruating has never been easy. Most cultures have long associated it with sickness and impurity. Exceptions exist, but China is not one.
Caterina Paiva
Artificial “fortune-telling” intelligence and how to never underestimate religious pragmatism
Our Editorial team went to Zhujiajiao 朱家角. Imagine how surprised we were when we found an AI fortune-telling machine?
Beatrice Tamagno
Editorial - Superstition in the air: belief under the Chinese sky
“One person’s religion is another person’s superstition,” wrote Gibson. What does superstition mean in the Chinese context then?
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