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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 ...

Why a hotpot restaurant has become a popular dating place
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

Pinduoduo has grown into China’s third biggest e-commerce firm by allowing shoppers who often don’t know each other to combine their orders for bigger discounts. After listing on Nasdaq last summer the four year-old firm is now worth $23 ...

Luxury comb maker Carpenter Tan makes renewed push for overseas sales
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

The comb has a special place in Chinese culture. Beyond untangling hair, they are sometimes offered as a token of love. They are popular gifts on Qixi, a local variant on Valentine’s Day. And in some parts of China a bride and groom will have ...

How Xuchang became China’s top hair exporter to Africa
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

There is a harrowing scene in the recent BBC adaptation of Les Miserables where the beautiful Fantine – played by Lily Collins – is forced to sell her luxuriant mane of hair to a travelling wigmaker to pay for her daughter’s ...

Tom Hiddleston’s China ad divides opinion
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

How would you feel if you woke up to find British actor Tom Hiddleston in your kitchen? If you are a Chinese woman, chances are you’d be quite happy. That’s based on the positive reaction to a new ad for Centrum vitamins featuring the 38 ...

Why a Hong Kong pop idol is fighting to defend her name
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

In 2012, former basketball star Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit against Chinese sports apparel company Qiaodan for using his name for business purposes and without his permission. The Fujian-based sportswear firm registered the Chinese characters ...

Who was the first Chinese to move to the UK?
Mar 22, 2019 (WiC 445)

Occasionally a book comes along that makes you wonder why no one thought to write it before. Barclay Price’s recently published The Chinese in Britain: A History of Visitors and Settlers falls into that category, using letters, ...

Chinese diplomat in ruckus with Russian paper
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

China and Russia have governments that agree on many issues and leaders that purport to be good friends. But it is often the case that the people have little affection for each other. Ordinary Russians can be racist towards Chinese and they ...

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