Did you know you lose 50% of your body heat through your belly? No? That’s because it’s not true. But you could be forgiven for thinking that was the belief among a certain segment of Chinese society, ...

Zhibo is a weekly column in which Beijing-based American Taylor Hartwell documents his journey down the rabbit hole of Chinese livestreaming app YingKe. If you know nothing about the livestreaming (直播 ...

Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three may have hit the big time with their 1984 hip hop classic “The Roof Is on Fire”… but it’s all fun and games until the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral actually lights ...

The Bronze Man, a thousand-year-old teaching implement, helps us visualize some of TCM's most important health practices What if there was more to see on the surface of the body than just skin? Enter ...

The last few weeks have seen Harvard’s admissions process on trial. But the case — brought by Affirmative Action opponent Edward Blum and being tried by the Boston Federal Courthouse at the moment — ...

China's supreme court has sided with the NBA superstar Michael Jordan can finally take a break — China’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the NBA superstar in an eight-year long legal battle with a ...

While biomedicine stops pain signals in their tracks, Chinese medicine seeks to reverse the pathological processes that cause it I place a small pyramid of herbs on Ms. Xu’s hand and light it with a ...

They do a lot of things. They synthesize energy from the sun’s rays. They produce oxygen all over the world, for which we are all very grateful. They make a great garden feature that can tie together ...

We owe a lot to the advancements of modern medicine. But Western medicine, and the shadowy figures in pharmaceutical board rooms, may be missing some of the bigger picture. Powerful prescriptions and ...

It’s an interesting age we’re in, where unique cultural phenomena (read: memes) can be produced, packaged, exported, reborn, and revised all in the blink of an eye. New Yorker Staff Writer and ...

2017 has been a year of many apocalypses. Some have been long and slow, and totally dependent on your set of alternate facts. Others, like the “Retail Apocalypse,” are more concrete. Sears is ...

Chinese netizens are fired up by what many view as a victim-blaming advertisement and a self-serving follow up apology Makeup removal brand PurCotton has come under fire in China multiple times this ...