EastSouthWestNorth blogger Roland Soong translates a humorous post and compares political jokes in the former Soviet Union with those found in China today. The verdict: “[T]he Chinese people are not ...

In this short video, I share a real-life mix-up from my language class, where a simple homework assignment goes off the rails ...

Hsu Pi-Ching dissects several types of jokes from collections published in early- seventeenth-century China to explore and expose tensions in late Ming society. Humorous and hyperbolic in tone, the ...

It transforms the most powerful man in the country into a teddy bear. It adds to the calendar the imaginary date of May 35 to invoke a people’s uprising that government censors seek to erase from ...