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And Finally

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The crying game

Jilted girlfriend gets revenge with onion dump
May 29, 2020 (WiC 497)

The world of Chinese e-commerce is truly impressive. Regardless of where you are, or what you want to buy, you can normally find a way to put in an order for the item that you want. Your correspondent has seen fish tanks, shipments of sand, ...

The bear necessities

How the pandemic is making life difficult for pandas overseas
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

When two giant pandas from China flew into Toronto airport in 2013, their arrival was deemed important enough to merit a personal welcome from then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Loans of bears like these are part of Beijing’s ...

Watch what you write…

Posts and messages on social media can now be used in civil cases
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

Be extra careful what you say on WeChat. That’s the joke many were making last week when new rules allowing the admission of digital evidence in civil court cases took effect. Previously transcripts of conversations on social media, blog ...

The final chapter

More bad feeling at Dangdang as founding couple’s nasty divorce drags on
May 8, 2020 (WiC 494)

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos separated from his wife MacKenzie last year they tried to keep the divorce civil, despite the huge sums at stake. There was still a hint of scandal around the case in allegations that National Enquirer owner David ...

The next level, lyrically

State media celebrates as Du Fu is compared to Shakespeare and Dante
May 1, 2020 (WiC 493)

The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu knew what it was like to live in unsettled times. In the poem Spring Scene, composed during the An Lu Shan Rebellion, Du mourns the empty streets of the city of Chang’an but notes that nature carries on ...

Topping the table

Microsoft team makes Mahjong breakthrough
Apr 24, 2020 (WiC 492)

First it was Chess, next it was Poker and then it was Go (see WiC368). And now computers can beat the world’s best Mahjong players too. That might not sound like much of an achievement. After all, it has been possible to play Mahjong on ...

Michael Jordan wins case in China’s highest court
Apr 17, 2020 (WiC 491)

Iconic is overused as an adjective in the media, although it probably deserves its place in the reports about the bitter battle between US superstar Michael Jordan and Chinese apparel brand Qiaodan Sports. The row, which has dragged on across ...

Seeds of an idea

Chinese scientists say they can recreate a plant that makes valuable oil
Apr 10, 2020 (WiC 490)

Looking at its Latin name, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the desert plant Jojoba originated in China. But the Latin binomial – Simmondsia chinensis – was the result of a mistake by a 17th century German botanist called Johann ...

Learning to forget

Chinese scientists claim they can make rats lose their memory
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

History lessons in China are taught carefully, especially in cases of controversial events in the recent past, which are only hinted at in official records and almost impossible to read about online. But a group of researchers from Peking ...

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 ...

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