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And Finally

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Bring on the substitute

Entrepreneur takes on Beyond Meat with his artificial meat mooncakes
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

Steamed buns are a signature dish of Huaiyang cuisine, a style popular in the more affluent cities in the Yangtze River Delta such as Shanghai and Suzhou. The buns are also believed to have inspired a Suzhou-style mooncake, known for its layers ...

The great impostor

DouYu video streamer banned after her true identity is unveiled
Aug 23, 2019 (WiC 463)

The term “catfish” only became synonymous with forging a fake social networking persona – for the purposes of seduction or nefarious goals – after a US documentary of that name aired in 2010. The indie movie recorded the nine-month ...

The name on everyone’s lips

Why a haemorrhoids brand wants to get into the lipstick business
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

There aren’t many A-share companies that can claim four centuries of commercial history. Mayinglong is one of these rareties. Popular thinking is that the Wuhan-based pharma firm has its origins in haemorrhoid relief, not the most glamorous of ...

Not to be sniffed at

How Megvii’s snout scanner is helping to track runaway dogs
Jul 26, 2019 (WiC 461)

Just as humans can be identified by their fingerprints, every dog has a unique nose print as well. For years kennel clubs have been staining snouts (with food colouring, rather than ink) and pressing them onto paper as records of identity. But ...

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 ...

Cautionary tale

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 ...

Change of address

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 ...

Moving the needle

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 – ...

A captive market

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 ...

Blast from the past

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 ...

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