Why do young Chinese love Friends so much?

At Liehuo #Arcade in central #Shanghai, avid arcade #gamers converge to play their favorite games. Stepping out of the elevator, visitors to the arcade are bombarded by the whizzes and bells from classic arcade games like Dance Dance Revolution, King of Fighters and Time Crisis. Regarded as a Mecca of arcading for anyone in Shanghai (and more broadly, #China), Liehuo is a haven for folks like our interviewees Xu Xuelai (35) and Yang Dong'er (29). Watch More

In North America, National Mental Health Awareness Month is celebrated annually in May to educate the public on mental health well-being. So we asked ourselves: how is mental health being addressed and prioritized in China? Watch More

Are you having sleep problems? So are 300 million people in China. A recent survey shows that while people spent more time at home in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it took an extra two or three hours for many to fall asleep. The number of online searches for sleep problems also increased 43%. In just six years, the national average sleep time dropped by two hours, from 8.8 hours in 2013 to 6.9 in 2019. And perhaps not surprisingly, those in their twenties and thirties sleep the latest — and least — among all age groups. Watch More

This year, Valentine’s Day in the West coincides with the Lunar New Year holiday that takes place across Asia. Watch More

China has recently begun to take its trash problem very seriously, including implementing some of the "strictest trash sorting laws" in history and beginning a ban on single-use plastics nationwide. Watch More

Thank you very much for joining us to watch “We Were Smart” here on Youtube over Friday & Saturday (Jan 8th-9th). We are grateful to Director Li Yifan for giving us exclusive permission to air his documentary for a limited time. Please be on the lookout for it on the festival circuit and follow us to keep updated on more stories on youth culture. Watch More

One of the few live in-person fashion weeks anywhere in the world right now, Shanghai Fashion Week AW21 was slightly postponed due to worries around the pandemic, but has ultimately been in full force the past few days, with shows taking place across the city. Watch More

China released data last week from a once-a-decade #PopulationCensus conducted late last year that shows population growth has slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, the proportion of senior citizens in China has expanded, the cohort of working-age people is contracting, and births are down. Watch More

This year’s 24th #Shanghai International #FilmFestival, or #SIFF, ran from June 11 to June 20 across 40 theaters in the city, showcasing more than 400 domestic and international movies. The event was so popular that 270,000 tickets were sold in the first five hours. Why are people so excited about SIFF? Watch More

If you’re looking for a quirky product, you’ll almost certainly find it on Taobao, China’s most prominent ecommerce firm. The company has been hosting its Taobao Maker Festival every year since 2016 in celebration of its creative merchants. Transparent burgers, hanfu matchboxes, treadmills for pets – you name it, this event likely has it. Watch More