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Egg price inflation drives up price of festive cake
Jul 19, 2019 (WiC 460)

Green tea and seafood are among a few of the many mooncake flavour variations you might be served across during the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of China’s most cherished festivals that falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Resembling an ...

NBA’s leading scorer stopped by Shanghai police
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

It’s the sort of insurance policy that even the most experienced underwriter would shudder to price: insuring against injury one of the world’s most famous basketball player as he rides a motorbike on China’s chaotic roads. But as it turned ...

Renaming drive reaches new heights in Fujian
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

“The street that Tamina was born on was called Schwerinova Street. That was during the war, when Prague was occupied by the Germans. Her father was born on Cernokostelecka Avenue. That was under Austria-Hungary. When her mother married her ...

Iceland’s knitters cry foul at Chinese copies
Jun 21, 2019 (WiC 457)

In the first episode of Trapped, Netflix’s 2015 Icelandic TV drama, a group of Chinese investors is trying to buy up land to expand a port. The proposal causes tension in the local community. Some want the Belt and Road investment – ...

Guangdong prisoners are buying from Alibaba
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

China’s 1.7 million prison inmates are no strangers to their country’s digital revolution. Some of them were even apprehended in facial recognition stings (see WiC380). But until this month one of the biggest trends on the Chinese internet ...

In Xi’s New Era, rural China returns to the loudspeaker for ideological push
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

When Ji Shuanzhong was younger, every house in his village was fitted with a small loudspeaker so his ‘production brigade’ could blast propaganda directly into homes. Over the years the speakers were replaced with communal ones on each ...

Head of Taoist organisation faces barrage of criticism over his wealth
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

In the Tao Te Ching – an ancient text from which Taoism takes its name – there are teachings that warn “there is no greater misfortune than greed”. For China’s nouveau riche great wealth is something normally to be celebrated. Lu ...

China’s toilet revolution remains in full swing
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

Two bricks and a hole – a decade ago it’s fair to say this was the norm for public toilets in rural China. Fast-forward to 2019 and the country’s “Toilet Revolution” is in full swing, with some municipalities going to extreme lengths in ...

Chinese censors extend their reach to Tencent’s video games
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

PUBG – or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – was one of China’s most popular online video games. In the 15 months since it was released by Tencent it accrued 400 million players worldwide – 150 million more than Fortnite, ...

Second-hand sneaker shop grabs unicorn status
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

While reselling sneakers (or trainers) is hardly a new phenomenon, the advent of online sales has massively expanded the market for second-hand footwear. The Financial Times reckons that trading in sneakers now generates at least $1 billion a ...

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