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Ready and Suited: China’s Buhurt Combat Culture is On the Rise

A decade on, armored combat, a niche historical battle sport, is starting to make ripples in the country despite its high barrier to entry

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Ready and Suited: China’s Buhurt Combat Culture is On the Rise

A decade on, armored combat, a niche historical battle sport, is starting to make ripples in the country despite its high barrier to entry

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The Year in Chinese Music: Top Albums of 2025

From dream-pop haze to dialect rap and post-punk playfulness, a curated snapshot of the sounds shaping the year picked by leading tastemakers across the scene

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2025 in Chinese Gaming: Hits, Flops, and What’s Next

Even without a blockbuster like 2024’s Black Myth: Wukong, China’s gaming market continued to grow robustly in the past year, fueled by exciting new titles and a more stable regulatory environment

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Let the Wind Take You: Inside China’s Latest Sprawling Wuxia World | Review

NetEase’s “Where Winds Meet” is an ambitious, free-to-play “wuxia” action role-playing game, but its dedication to maximalism may have also partly been its undoing

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Indie Hopes and Creativity at China’s Largest Board Game Convention

Board games have supposedly been played in China for 4,000 years. But are local designers ready to take the industry to new heights?

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Monkeying Around: Chinese Gamers on the ‘Black Myth’ Phenomenon

We gathered people to play the hottest game of the year. Here’s what they had to say about it.