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And Finally

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Tabling a truce?

Ping pong diplomacy enjoys a brief revival
Dec 3, 2021 (WiC 566)

Ping-pong diplomacy was born in 1971 when American table tennis player Glen Cowen hitched a ride with the Chinese team after missing the US team bus at the World Championships in Japan. At the time China and the US were still notionally Cold ...

New song predicts Beijing-to-Taipei bullet train
Nov 26, 2021 (WiC 565)

The lyrics are simple and the melody sounds synthetic. But the subject is one of the biggest geopolitical flashpoints of our time. ‘Going to Taiwan in 2035’ is a children’s song from mainland Chinese artist Meng Xudong about taking a ...

Football’s failures

Chinese national soccer team disappoint – again
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

It was 20 years ago when China made its first appearance at football’s World Cup finals. That’s still the only time the world’s most populous nation has qualified for the final stages of the tournament. The task was less challenging at the ...

Victory for the underdogs

Euphoria in China as team wins League of Legends world cup in Rejkjavik
Nov 12, 2021 (WiC 563)

Since its launch in 2011, League of Legends has been a fan favourite. It’s a strategy game where two teams of five heroes battle to destroy the other’s base. The game is enduringly popular, making the League of Legends World ...

Crazy like a fox

Chinese swoon at newly created character launched at Shanghai Disneyland
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

Move over Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh – the newest Disney character that’s captured the hearts of Chinese consumers is a little pink fox called LinaBell. With big sapphire-blue eyes and a bushy pink tail, she has become a viral sensation ...

Pension passions

A dating show for seniors is a hit
Oct 29, 2021 (WiC 561)

On the face of it, a dating show for retirees set on the Chinese-North Korean border shouldn’t be a romantic hit. Love Won’t Come Too Late has proved to be just that. Produced by a local broadcaster in snowy Jilin province, the ...

Rolls-Royce’s rare use of social influencers backfires with China buyers
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

Television started to became popular in the US and Europe in the 1950s (albeit in black and white). Rolls-Royce avoided TV commercials for years, however, preferring more traditional print ads in glossy magazines, if it advertised at all. The ...

Grocery glamour

Online buzz as Prada offers designer paper bags at a Shanghai wet market
Oct 15, 2021 (WiC 559)

For Shanghai’s trendier millennials and Gen Z’ers, fruit and veg shopping rarely tops their to-do lists. But during the most recent National Day holiday – which ended on Thursday last week – thousands of them flocked to the Wuzhong fresh ...

A successful ‘spelling’ game

New Harry Potter mobile game proves massive hit in China for NetEase
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 557)

The first Harry Potter novel did not arrive in bookstores in China until 2000, three years after the English-language version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone became a global phenomenon. Like elsewhere, the JK Rowling novels ...

What does your future hold?

A game that predicts ‘life outcomes’ makes waves in China
Sep 17, 2021 (WiC 556)

When readers are first introduced to Nora Seed in Matt Haig’s bestselling novel The Midnight Library, she is a 35-year-old with regrets. She no longer talks to her only living relative and is drifting apart from her only friend. When ...

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