TECHNOLOGY

Taobao Terror: When Gamified E-Commerce Took Over My Life

How a tabby cat mini-game helped transform China’s e-commerce ecosystem...not always for the better

TRAVEL

How Hangzhou Helped Jack Ma Build a Digital Empire

Hangzhou has birthed some of China's biggest tech companies

TECHNOLOGY

Talking Smart

AI voice assistants promise to revolutionize human-machine interaction, but their performance falls short of expectations

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Scream Streams

Why China’s thrill-seeking livestreamers broadcast from ‘haunted’ locations

NEWS

Charity Inc.

Covid-19 highlights the growth and challenges of China’s burgeoning corporate giving culture

NEWS

Viral Week Ep. 194

#IAmLes banned, a court forgets to proofread, an ex crashes a wedding, and Jack Ma defends overwork—it’s Viral Week

EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Tech Thursday: Silicon Rush

With a rising tech sector and poor job prospects in their own fields, humanities grads are looking to join internet companies

NEWS

QR Woes

The limits to mobile payment systems

ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY

Gaming the System

Alipay’s environmentally conscious “Ant Forest” allows young Chinese to combine mobile payment with fighting pollution

TECHNOLOGY

Tech Thursday: War of Tycoons

There’s little love lost between Jack Ma and Richard Liu, but the drama of the last two weeks have cast the rivalry in different lights