From ugly-cute rebellion to a new kind of 'C-pop,' the breakout success of Wakuku sheds light on Chinese consumer culture and ...

Note: In this What’s on Weibo chapter on the story behind China’s designer toys, also read Inside the Labubu Craze and the ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

These one-market-one-plan efforts retain the IP's core identity while catering to local tastes. Labubu's rise from a niche collectible to a cultural icon exemplifies China's growing creative ...

Veteran car designer Luc Donckerwolke is the genius behind today's Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia models, but also famed icons like the Lamborghini Murcielago and Bentley Continental GT.

But globalization, the trend toward these things moving ever more freely between countries, has seen ebbs and flows over the decades and most recently has hit what appears to be a momentary peak. The ...

She is author of the 2013 book “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific” and has studied Hello Kitty for over 25 years. Yano attributes Hello Kitty’s popularity to her ...

This article explores how globalization affects Pakistan, highlighting the paradox of its low carbon footprint juxtaposed with significant environmental and socio-economic challenges.

What is globalization? Globalization is a multifaceted and complex process involving the integration of economies, societies, and cultures through the global network of trade, communication, and ...

Even as the contours of the new “Washington consensus” are still taking shape, some underlying and gloomy global realities remain the same — perhaps, even more pronounced.

“Hello Kitty is really, really cute. But it’s also really, really clever,” says anthropologist Christine Yano, the author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, the only ...