What's on Weibo

What’s on Weibo - inside the trending topics of China. Cultural, historical and social insights into digital trends & trending topics on China’s internet and social media. www.whatsonweibo.com

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The What's on Weibo Podcast is Here

#45 Oct 19, 2020

What's on Weibo - What is NOT trending in China this week

#44 Jun 5, 2019

CCTV Spring Festival Gala Live Blog

#43 Feb 4, 2019

#42

Nov 16, 2018

What's on Weibo - Issue #42 – The past few months have been very busy at What's on Weibo, as I've been traveling around for public
#41

Aug 30, 2018

What's on Weibo - Weibo's Moral Compass – It is a week of controversies in which Weibo discussions are arguably more about moral compasses than
#40

Aug 23, 2018

What's on Weibo - Let's Get Married? – Marriage and babies have been a big topic of discussion on Chinese social media recently, especially
#39

Jun 29, 2018

What's on Weibo - Issue #39 – It has been a week full of discussions on Chinese social media, and many of them were focused on the
#38

May 27, 2018

Perks & Punishments of Social Credit in China - What's on Weibo – Social credit in China is one of the hottest China topics currently being discussed in foreign media,
#37

Apr 11, 2018

What's on Weibo - Issue #37 – There are lots of new trending topics on Chinese social media lately relating to the legal aspects of
#36

Feb 1, 2018

What's on Weibo - February 1st – While January has gone in the blink of an eye, much has happened on Weibo over the past few weeks. Ch
#35

Nov 24, 2017

What's on Weibo - Issue #35 – It is not often that an event causes so much online commotion in China as the exposure of a major chi
#34

Nov 4, 2017

What's on Weibo - Issue #34 – From the China Merchant's bank latest commercial to the employment market conundrum of China's post 9
#33

Oct 9, 2017

What's on Weibo - Issue #33 – It has been some weeks since you last saw What's on Weibo in your inbox. We've been busy with a renew
#32

Aug 14, 2017

What's on Weibo - "No Second 'Resist US, Aid Korea''" – There are so many hot topics on Chinese social media during this hot summer - Weibo's censors must be
#31

Jul 26, 2017

What's on Weibo - No "Real Life" in Beijing? – "There are over 20 million people left in this city, pretending to live. In reality, there simply is
#30

Jun 7, 2017

What's on Weibo - Issue #30 – It's early June and that means it's time for the gaokao, the national college entrance exams. For man
#29

May 17, 2017

What's on Weibo - Issue #29 – It's been some time since our last newsletter; we were too busy going around Beijing's various hot po
#28

Mar 18, 2017

What's on Weibo - Messy Media – Judging from the recent international media headlines, something very drastic is going on in the Peop
#27

Feb 23, 2017

What's on Weibo - China's e-Commerce Graveyard – "When there's enough wind, even a pig can fly" (当风来了, 猪也会飞起来), is a sentence often used when talking
#26

Feb 7, 2017

What's on Weibo - Women's Voices – It has been well over a year since the end of the One Child Policy and the implementation of the 'Two

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