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Luosifen
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

What is it? A famous snack from Liuzhou in Guangxi province, called luosifen – also known as river ‘snail rice noodle’ in English – is notorious for its pungent odour. ...

“It would be perfectly normal if the virus comes and goes, and lasts for one or two years”
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

The warning from Zhang Wenhong, head of Shanghai’s Covid-19 clinical expert team, during a video-conference organised by the Chinese consulate in Düsseldorf.“I can tell you now, forget the idea that the pandemic will come to an end in Europe ...

The naked truth

Rogue employees cripple a rival dating app using dirty tricks
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

Revenge porn is typically the result of an intimate relationship gone wrong. The aggrieved party distributes images of a former partner to shame and embarrass them. But in China companies are trying out a variation of the same abuse – using ...

Zhang Weili
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Why is she in the news? Mixed martial arts star Zhang Weili defended her straw-weight title against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 in Las Vegas on March 8, winning a bitter, five-round ...

Fang Fang, a voice from Wuhan

Lockdown tales attract 62 million netizens despite censorship
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

I first came across Fang Fang, a Wuhan-based writer, two years ago for her novel Soft Burial, which had been banned in China but which was circulating online. It is a captivating and heart-wrenching story about a landlord family in rural ...

Go with the flow

“We are beginning to see impacts on March volumes from when many [Chinese] workers were quarantined”
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Jim Newsome, chief executive of the South Carolina Port Authority, tells the Financial Times that exports from China are down. He expects container volumes in March and April to be “15-20% lower versus our business plan”. The FT says port ...

Sidestepping the censors

Netizens make a creative push to get banned material back online
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

It was one of the millions of messages that WeChat, China’s most popular social media platform, routinely blocks with its censorship algorithms. But this time the content stayed alive, thanks to netizen efforts to keep it on view by rewriting ...

“The outbreak is a real test of a company’s core competency and the ability to adapt to the new environment.…
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

He Xiaopeng, XPENG Motors chairman, tells the Financial Times that 2021 will be the year electric cars go mainstream and that he’s “cautiously optimistic” on his industry despite the impact of the coronavirus.

One page at a time

Booksellers try new tactics in battle to survive Covid-19
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

Doctor Fu never expected to find fame simply by reading a book. But a snapshot of him holding Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order while lying in a hospital bed was widely reposted online. Netizens were soon celebrating ...

Snow queen
Mar 5, 2020 (WiC 485)

Who is she? Eileen Gu – also known by her Chinese name, Gu Ailing – was born in 2003 in San Francisco. The 16 year-old freestyle skier first developed a love for skiing when her mother, ...

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