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How Ancient Chinese Scammers Tricked Consumers
Ancient Chinese consumers had to watch out for all manner of frauds and fake goods
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Chinese Consumers Still Don’t Trust Food Additives
Why do Chinese consumers fear additives in their food?
NEWS
Soy Sauce Brand Faces Additives Controversy and Other Trending News
Soy sauce brand faces questions over additives, tech billionaire settles sexual assault case, turtle falls from eighth story and survives, Qingdao la…
NEWS
Centuries-Old Bridge in Fujian Burns Down and Other Trending News
Flash flood kills seven in Sichuan, exorbitantly priced designer bike shocks netizens, 932-year-old bridge burns down, Billboard launches Chinese edi…
FEMINISM
Why Supporters Still Follow a Doomed Sexual Harassment Case
China’s highest-profile sexual harassment case ended in another defeat this week, but its plaintiff and supporters are not giving up
NEWS
Heart-Wrenching Story of Rural Uncle Inspires Viewers and Other Trending News
Viral video of rural “uncle” inspires netizens, temple in Nanjing caught memorializing war criminals, giant screen crushes dancers, pink-haired woman…
NEWS
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rural Banks?
Rural banks were supposed to help farmers make a living and remote areas develop. How did they become so problematic?
NEWS
Covid-19 Health Code Drops Asterisks and Other Trending News
Asterisk dropped from Covid-19 travel code, woman fakes Russian history on Wikipedia, emojis used in court, father cries over son’s math score—it’s V…
NEWS
Ugly School Textbook Controversy and Other Trending News
Dancing Psyduck toy goes viral, ugly textbook illustrations panned, undergraduate rejected from job for being “too old,” man scales 37 floors unaided…
SOCIAL CHINESE
End of the Line: How to Beat China’s Scam Callers
Our guide to identifying and dealing with common phone scams
SOCIETY
First Covid-19 Deaths in Over a Year and Other Trending News
Two Covid-19 deaths in Jilin, actor fined 106 million yuan for tax evasion, ban on flavored vapes, sexist ad panned—it’s Viral Week
ENTERTAINMENT
A Few More Entertainment Scandals for the Year’s End
This year has truly been a celebrity gossip bonanza, with a few more A-listers ending their career at the same time as 2021
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