TECHNOLOGY
The Price of Mobile Wallets
An inability to recall payments leaves some WeChat and Alipay users high and dry
TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Viral Week Ep. 160
Crackdown on FIFA betting, interns eat bitterness, students lag on illegal loans, and 27-year-old burnouts—it’s Viral Week
LIVING IN CHINA
Love in an Old Climate
What is it like to face the end of one’s life—and see one’s loved ones grow old—in a country with an imperfect medical system?
TRAVEL
Going North
Cheap prices and “internet celebrity” stores are drawing Hong Kong millennial tourists to the mainland
TECHNOLOGY
Tech Thursday episode 44
Advanced lock-pick on Taobao, Chinese Academy of Sciences develops laser assault rifle, and everybody else develops AI
SOCIETY
Racing Chance
China gets a horse in international racing, as investors at home hope for relaxed gambling regulations
NEWS
Viral Week Ep. 159
One Country Two Dorms, star salary caps, love hotel voyeur, and bad Chinese tourists at a mosque—it’s Viral Week
BOOKS
Kids Today
Who will shape China’s youth narrative—millennials, or the Westerners who can’t stop writing about them?
ARTS
Idol Flattery
Singing show’s judging standards has netizens petitioning the government to “monitor” it
