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The Tamagotchi-like Traveling Frog: Japanese Mobile Game Going Viral in China
A mobile game in which players have to help a little frog prepare for his travels through Japan is topping the online game charts in China. With its cute design and stress-free strategy, Traveling Frog...
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“Zang Zang Bao”– The Hype Surrounding Beijing’s “Dirty Dirty” Chocolate Bread
The so-called ‘Zang Zang Bao’ (Dirty Dirty Bread) has become a hype in Beijing and beyond. Showing off one’s chocolate-covered face after eating the pastry is the latest online fad. Even with minus ten...
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First Dutch University to Open Branch Campus in China Cancels Plans over...
The plans of the Dutch University of Groningen to establish a campus in China have been canceled as a majority of the University Council has raised concerns over the academic freedom and quality of...
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Why Weibo and Chinese Celebrities Are Put into the Naughty Corner by China’s...
China’s central Internet regulator has summoned Sina Weibo to keep its information flows under control, punishing the platform by closing down its hot search lists and trending topic lists for the time...
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Growing Virtual Bamboo for Real Pandas: Weibo’s Panda Movement
Watching panda livestreams online, sharing worries over pandas in captivity, and now raising a virtual panda to help grow bamboo – Weibo has a panda movement going on, and it is a giant one. Last...
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Where is Tang Lanlan? Chinese Netizens and Media Clash over Decade-Old Sexual...
The story of a highly unusual criminal case from 2008, in which 11 villagers were sentenced to prison for the abuse of a 14-year-old girl named Tang Lanlan (alias), has caused an online war between...
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Why Paint Buckets Are This Spring Festival Travel Season’s Hottest Item
Spotted during the first days of the Spring Festival travel season: paint buckets. Why are so many people bringing plastic barrels with them on their travels home for the Chinese New Year? During...
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“Old Friends” King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima Visit Beijing
The Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrived in China on Wednesday for their third meeting with Xi Jinping and the First Lady since 2014. For a third time in less than five years time, the...
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Chinese Media Ascribe ‘Traveling Frog’ Game Hype to China’s Low Birth Rates
The Japanese mobile game ‘Traveling Frog’ is a hit among young working – mainly female – adults in China. According to various Chinese media, the ‘virtual frog’ fills a void in a society that faces...
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Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake
With Leftover in China – The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower, author Roseann Lake brings a deeply insightful and captivating account of China’s so-called ‘leftover women’ – the unmarried...
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“Violent Incident” at Xidan Joy City Mall
In the afternoon of Sunday, February 11, a violent knife attack occurred in the Joy City mall (西单大悦) in the Xidan central shopping district in Beijing. News of the attack was first officially reported...
View ArticleShanghai Police Releases Surveillance Footage of Dumbest Burglars Ever
On February 14, the official Weibo account of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (@上海市公安局官方微博) released a video on its channel that is going viral on Chinese social media today. The video was captured...
View ArticleCCTV Spring Festival Gala 2018 (Live Blog)
It is time for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, one of the most-watched, most-discussed, and most mocked lived television events in the world, taking place on the Lunar New Year’s Eve. What’s on Weibo...
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About the CCTV Spring Festival Gala’s ‘Racist’ Africa Comedy Sketch
One of the skits performed during the 2018 CCTV Spring Gala has rubbed a great many people the wrong way for being racist and offensive. “Foreign media are going to explode,” one Weibo user wrote. The...
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Chinese State Media Launch ‘Hold Your Mother’s Hand’ Campaign with Xi Jinping...
With the online ‘hold your mother’s hand’ campaign, various Chinese state media stress the idea of ‘homecoming’ and the importance of family ties. President Xi Jinping is represented as the perfect...
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Woman Kicked Out on Highway Off-ramp by Boyfriend over Spring Festival Argument
News of a Chinese woman being kicked out of the car beside a high-speed road by her boyfriend is making its rounds on Weibo today. What many netizens are especially astonished about, is that the couple...
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Xi Jinping Can Now Stay in Office After Second Term – Weibo Responds
The official announcement that the Central Committee of the Communist Party in China will amend the constitution of the PRC in some important ways, including a potential indefinite rule for China’s...
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Chinese “Little Brat” Urinates on Elevator Control Panel, Gets Trapped When...
A Chongqing boy urinating on the buttons of an elevator recently became trapped due to electrical breakdown. Security footage of the incident is now going viral on Weibo. On February 23, security...
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Chinese PhD Student Goes Missing in London (Updated)
A 36-year-old woman from Shenyang, China, who is a PhD student at London’s King’s College, has been missing for ten days. Her mother is reaching out for help on Weibo. This article has been updated to...
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“The UK Is Not a Safe Place”– Concerns over Second Chinese Female Student...
Two Chinese students have been reported missing in London within 24 hours. Yan Sihong has not been in touch with family or friends since February 16; Rong Luqi last contacted friends on February 25,...
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