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And Finally

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catching a killer

Police make arrest in longstanding murder case, after virus-related test
Mar 5, 2020 (WiC 485)

Did the Nanjing police use the coronavirus to help solve a murder case that had been languishing on their books for 28 years? That’s what the Yangtze Evening News is suggesting after the arrest of a suspect almost 30 years after a medical ...

Property developer takes beating online over donations to Hubei
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

Back in 2014, billionaire couple Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin made headlines when they gifted $15 million to Harvard and another $10 million to Yale as part of their $100 million initiative to fund disadvantaged students from China studying at top ...

More playing time

The online gaming sector has been a big beneficiary of the coronavirus
Feb 21, 2020 (WiC 483)

Unprecedented numbers of players are spending their time on China’s online gaming platforms. The reason – the coronavirus, which is keeping people indoors – is obvious enough. But the sudden spike in demand is putting pressure on servers. ...

Lots of homework

Virus crisis brings surge in stay-at-home study
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

In Mandarin, there is a mix of variations for the word “busy”. Slight subtleties in the ‘changing’ radical can come to mean: “hurried”, “bustling” or “engaged”. But keeping busy is the norm for many students in China – and ...

Not a pleasant business

How a town in Shandong churns out most of Japan’s coffins
Jan 31, 2020 (WiC 481)

China is famous for towns that decided to focus on manufacturing a single product as the economy opened up in the 1990s. There are cities that make just socks, others which produce only golf accessories and one that that makes a third of the ...

The next chapter

Bookstores booming in China, despite e-books
Jan 24, 2020 (WiC 480)

Portugal’s Livraria Lello is celebrated as one of the world’s most charming bookstores. Opened in 1906, it operates from a neo-Gothic building with a majestic stained-glass ceiling. The Art Deco interior features elegant woodcarvings, glowing ...

A very retro look

Traditional Han Chinese clothing is getting trendy
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Su Yan is a twenty-something woman who likes to dress up in hanfu – traditional Han Chinese clothing. She is not alone. Millions of young Chinese now don these free flowing outfits – most as a hobby, some as their day-to-day ...

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