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Smart Car Successfully Navigating the Chinese Market as a Lifestyle Brand
As phones, homes and bank accounts get bigger in China, many youth are looking small, but smart — specifically at Mercedez Benz foray into the compact, urban space-saving automobile — the Smart car.
Search for 奔驰smart (the official Chinese brand name) on Sina Weibo and you will post...
10/24 Weibo Roundup: Yueyue Inspired Backing-up Style and the Chinese “Sex and City” for Men
It’s Monday, the day that we hand pick a sampling of the most interesting and popular trending topics on China’s most popular microblogging site, Weibo.com. So let’s get to it.
Yueyue Inspired Backing-Up Style
This week, a post from Dong Pan, an economist and real estate professor at Beijing Normal...
10/17 Weibo Roundup: A Blind Eye to Tragedy and Smoking Students Fuming Over University’s New Financial Aid Regulations
Every week, we like to take a look at the hottest trending topics on China’s most popular microblogging site Sina Weibo.com. Here’s a quick sampling of a couple of the stories making Weibo waves this week.
Netizens Voice Outrage Over Failure to React to Hit and Run
Netizens voiced shock and outrage...
SNS Revolution or Just a Bunch of Chatty Teens?
After spending 1,600 RMB on travel fare and three hours queuing in the rain, 21-year-old Zou Xin finally got her ticket to attend a free forum being held on the morning of Sept. 10 in Beijing.
The event, which featured scholars and writers had gathered to speak about Chinese society and history, drew...
Why Hip-Hop is Finding its Chinese Groove Better than Rock and Punk
While rock, indie and alternative music certainly has its place in China’s underground and is often courted by global media as a gauge of a flourishing arts culture in “new China,” the reality can often be far different than the reporting. Poorly attended shows, lack of musicianship, lack of motivation...
The Look: Quick Takes on Art and Design in China [VIDEO]
At enovate, we’re not just interested in what the youth of China are doing, but also why they’re doing it. We’ve found that, when comes to figuring out what is motivating a new trend, there is no better way than going straight to the source and asking. The Look is our new weekly feature...
Why the World is Ready-to-Wear These Young Chinese Designers
China’s Fashion Weekly magazine recently rounded up the the most promising, young local designers during China’s first Youth Fashion Week in Beijing, organizing special shows that put their collections on the runway in front of celebrities, their fashion idols and the media. Out of these designers,...
enovate’s Tweet Team Sums Up the Week: Chinese Sex Education, Top Weekend Pastimes and Rethinking The Chinese Dream
We’ve summed up our favorite tweets from this week:
Home schooling is on the rise, propelled by parents’ concerns that China’s education system is not providing what their children need.
Check out our top-5 list of Chinese university students’ favorite weekend pastimes.
Very-early sex...
Eat, Play, Rise Above: Top 5 Ways Young Chinese Spend their Weekends
Perhaps no time is more sacred to young people than the weekend. How they choose to spend this time can tell us as much about them as it does about the society they live in. Because of this, we’ve been talking to university students about their weekends, asking them about what they do during this...
enovate’s Weekly Street Shots
Here at enovate, we make a point to keep an eye on the latest in street fashion and each week we post some of our favorite and most representative looks we see. This week we were at Raffles City, near Shanghai’s Peoples’ Square, where we met several young fashionistas.
Jenny, 21, Shanghai
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