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NEWS

Viral Week Ep. 270

Robot rickshaws, bad Universal ad, senior fashion icon, and company loyalty test-—it’s Viral Week

Nov. 9, 2020

SOCIAL CHINESE

Techno Babble

The incomprehensible jargon of Chinese internet firms

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Nov. 8, 2020

LIVING IN CHINA

Toy for Joy

Workers, loneliness, and “silicone doll experiences”

Nov. 7, 2020

FOOD

Food Academies

Why are cities building museums and schools for obscure food?

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Nov. 6, 2020

IDIOMS

Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom

Shattering sayings on explosion and destruction

Nov. 5, 2020

ANCIENT HISTORY

Lootings of Legend

Five audacious tomb robberies from ancient history to today

Nov. 4, 2020

MODERN HISTORY

The Jazz Age

When the Harlem Renaissance briefly flourished in Shanghai

Nov. 3, 2020

NEWS

Viral Week Ep. 269

Binary suns, quiet carriage, livestream limits, and housewife discrimination—it’s Viral Week

Nov. 2, 2020

CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 救

Send in this character to the rescue

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉)& Aaron Hsueh

Nov. 1, 2020

TRAVEL

Strange Haunts

Five places in China famous for paranormal events

Oct. 31, 2020

BOOKS

Love Amid the Ruins

Poetry and pleasure in a long lost Ming dynasty world

Oct. 30, 2020

ENVIRONMENT

Burning Issue

Environmental activist Zhang Jingning wants the Chinese public to know where waste goes

Oct. 29, 2020

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