Chinamaxxing is adding more gloss to the recent flourish of Chinese soft power.

Social media users are “becoming Chinese” just in time for the Lunar New Year. But what’s behind the trend, and will it last?

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Labubu appears to be yet another sign of China’s global success. Figurines of the grinning, pointy-eared elf, ...

Every Monday morning, the stirring strains of China’s national anthem stream into my Beijing apartment from the elementary school across the street. Young students in uniform stand in neat rows on a ...

Labubu appears to be yet another sign of China’s global success. Figurines of the grinning, pointy-eared elf, marketed by a Chinese company called Pop Mart, are so wildly popular that fans around the ...