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Viral Week Ep.184
Jilin explosion, lewd textbook, two-faced toll worker, taught by bamboo, and more—it’s Viral Week
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SOCIAL CHINESE
Pig Mouth
China may have fallen in love with Peppa, but the pig still has a sorry reputation in idioms and proverbs
TECHNOLOGY
Apps for Non-Chinese Speakers
A few new picks—and some classic solutions—for the clueless laowai
ARTS
Peppa Pig and Product Placement
Viral “tearjerker ads” have become an annual Spring Festival tradition
NEWS
Viral Week Ep. 183
Viral Week is our weekly round-up of the weekend’s trending memes, humor, rumor, gossip, and everything else Chinese netizens are chatting about
FICTION
The Socialite | Short Story
As a fading Chinese-American aristocrat meets the mainland’s nouveau riche, they discover that the more things change, the more they stay the same
SOCIAL CHINESE
Bad Romance
The melodramatic writings of Qiong Yao have inspired a whole slew of slushy satire
TRADITIONAL CULTURE
TWOC TV EP. 15: The Heritage of Etiquette
Experts discuss how China’s 3,000-year-old “rites and music” tradition evolved into modern etiquette
SOCIETY
Sexual Healing
Surveys suggest that, after decades of official puritanism and a culture of sexual shaming, young Chinese are leading the way in promoting greater se…
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