Yesterday, on the 47th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution’s official starting date, a few apologies made by individuals who have made mistakes during that 10 years of madness went viral online, and ignited discussions of who should be responsible for all the chaos.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s Tuesday piece of her double mastectomy is making waves on both print and social media. China is no exception, as one netizen warmilk put it: “The whole nation is talking about her and her breasts.”

The principal of the Second Elementary School in the city of Wanning, Hainan province, took 6 of his female students to a local hotel on May 8. Joined him later was a local government official. Chinese netizens once again called for amendment of “prostitutioning the underaged” law.

“We thought we could expect a Gorbachev. But it turns out they [officials] are more like North Korea’s Kim family,” sighed one netizen. The Chinese dream, which has been at the center of government propaganda since Xi took power, is only but a dream to the ordinary people.

What would you do if you don’t trust your own government? For China’s always-cynical netizens, the answer is easy – to appeal to the US government. The 6 most recent petitions submitted to the White House are all from China.

Two protests happened in China this past Sunday. One in Kunming to protest against the setup of a chemical plant; and the other in Changsha to protest against a speech by a “rightist.” They each represent an ideology that is celebrated by many, younger generations in particular, in China.

To answer netizens’ calls for a re-investigation into Zhu Ling’s 19-year-old poisoning case, Chinese authorities blocked all words and deleted all posts related to the case on Sina Weibo, on World Press Freedom Day.

Wall Street financial powerhouses finally started to short gold, leading to a crash in global price of gold. What they didn’t expect was that a group of Chinese middle-aged ladies rushed into the battlefield, who snapped up 300 ton of gold with more than RMB 100 billion yuan in a few days.

In 2013, the total online sales in China is expected to reach $265 billion, exceeding all other countries including the US. China has 242 million online shoppers, accounting for about 40% of its entire population.

After the 18th National Party Congress, China saw a sudden surge in anti-corruption investigations, most of which were first exposed by netizens online. While many are cheering for the power of the Web, others call for caution, comparing online anti-corruption to the Culture Revolution.

Li Lei and Han Meimei, two of the main characters in China’s middle-school English textbooks 20 years ago, made a comeback in this year’s new textbook and started a strong wave of post-80s nostalgia. In a country like China where radical changes are happening every day, nostalgia is something can be felt in the air every now and then, especially among the post-80s generation.

This weekend, unrest can be felt in the air all over China. This weekend, chanting of “Long live Chairman Mao” once again can be heard all over China. This weekend, pictures with Mao started to be censored on Weibo.

The on-going London Olympics gives rise to probably the largest scale of lottery scams on Sina Weibo. Numerous legitimately-sounding Weibo accounts started to spread prize-for-everyone lotteries betting on China Olympic team’s gold medal counts.

In the eyes of Chinese netizens, the top 3 winners of Miss World Chongqing are too ugly to win the contest unless they are mistresses of people in power. But what if judging by Western beauty standards, which are so different from Chinese ones?

In addition to the conventional practices of branded pages and paid retweets, another popular way of Weibo marketing is to pay popular accounts to feature branded profile pictures.

An infographic put together by Guohead, a mobile advertising agency in China, gives an overview of app usage among Chinese smartphone users and their acceptance and preference of advertising in apps.