‘Chinamaxxing’ your health: America’s obsession with Chinese medicine is taking over TikTok

As US-China tensions simmer, people online are joking about wanting to ‘become Chinese’ – starting with their wellness routines Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu, a 23-year-old Chinese American creator based in New Jersey. If you were really serious about “becoming Chinese”, you would be sipping hot water every day, she warned in a TikTok video with millions of views. “I really do feel like, digestion-wise, a lot better when...

By Michelle Hyun Kim