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rè sōu (热搜) — “hot search.” Not the headlines; the replies underneath.

Reading China's internet from the inside.

Hot debates, cultural codes, and the context lost in translation.

Three ways in — three columns, three doors. Pick one.

While It's Hot What's boiling over — and what it says out loud Every story in three layers: what happened, what they're saying, what I see. READ THE LATEST → The Resou Dictionary 普信男 pǔ xìn nán “so ordinary, so confident” One untranslatable word at a time — numbered, filed, and argued over. OPEN ENTRY #007 → MEME MARGIN ↓ “He is so ordinary, yet so confident.” One in 1.4 Billion The postdoc who stopped calling home Real people, real names withheld. One portrait a month. MEET NO.003 →