16+ hour, 8+ min ago  (610+ words) On a stage covered in artificial snow, shirtless male dancers in hanfu-style skirts perform backflips and splits before a roaring crowd. Mid-routine, one dancer steps forward and gestures for louder applause, then removes another layer of his skirt. The scene…...

23+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1625+ words) It began with a viral video filmed using a drone. The camera sweeps over vast, golden wheatfields, the surrounding peaks shifting like ocean waves, before settling on a single glossy privet, the only tree for acres around. Within days of…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (543+ words) After more than a year of relying almost exclusively on Doubao, Li Si is weighing whether to abandon China's most popular AI chatbot. In recent weeks, the 20-year-old college student says the chatbot has become noticeably less reliable. "Now it…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (459+ words) Internationally acclaimed Chinese science fiction writer Hao Jingfang has sparked heated debate after revealing that "half" of her latest work was "written with AI," stating, "readers can't tell which parts." The controversy concerns the final two books in her five-volume…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (380+ words) In May, as U. S. President Donald Trump visited China alongside a delegation of tech executives, including Elon Musk, a Chinese lookalike of the South African entrepreneur stood outside a Tesla showroom and posted a video'to Instagram. Looking directly into the camera,…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (560+ words) The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has introduced an AI-focused program for the first time, creating a space to discuss AI integration into filmmaking in addition to showcasing acclaimed films from around the world. The festival, now in its 28th year,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (291+ words) China has issued new guidelines on TV and online drama credits, defining for the first time the requirements for the order of actors" names. The move comes in response to rising conflicts among fans over rankings associated with credit order....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (479+ words) A man who eats passing trains, a giant with ball-crushing strength, a robot striker with the occasional human smile. On Chinese social media, they are all versions of Erling Haaland, the Norwegian soccer forward. Fresh from scoring 16 goals to help…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (1355+ words) The rain in Yongquan Village in China's deep south was torrential on May 16. Dirt roads were turned to sludge, and its waterways swelled with ferocious speed. Early evening, after hours of back-breaking work, 15 casual farm laborers loaded onto a gray…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (688+ words) For years, students at some of Beijing's most prestigious universities lined up for the roasted goose snacks sold by a street vendor known simply as "Auntie Goose Legs." This week, she admitted the legs were actually duck, upending a campus…...