By now many of you have probably watched the first two episodes of HBO's hit series Girls, which premiered on Sky Atlantic last night. By now many of you have therefore probably joined the debate about how socially revolutionary the show is. While I do not wish to dwell on...

The Olympic Games might not be in Beijing this time round, but there is still an atmosphere of competition in China's capital. In the lead up, the main question centred on why Londoners didn't seem as excited about the games as Beijingers were back in 2008. As a Londoner living...

The length of a woman's skirt has become a battleground in China of late, with people slinging opinions on both sides of the knee.

Last month Shanghai Metro asked women to don more clothes when taking the subway. In a post on Sina Weibo, China's biggest microblogging...

When graphic photos emerged last week of a woman lying next to her bloody aborted baby, the event alone was sadly not unique in the history of China's one child policy. The scale of the online public debate that ensued was though. Nationwide chatter...

"Oh you're British - Manchester United, David Beckham!" gushes a local Beijing cabbie upon
discovering his passenger is from the UK. The comment is remarkably common, alongside
references to the Olympics and the Queen. The Chinese love football. They even claim the
sport was invented in their...