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Michelin launches Guangzhou restaurant guide
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

What’s the next best city for dining out in China after Shanghai? According to vaunted French dining guide, the Michelin Guide, it’s Guangzhou, known to many as the capital of southern Chinese cooking. To make their point, the guide ...

How an online talent show boosted Unilever’s toothpaste sales by 268%
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

The massively popular reality competition Produce 101 has finished, but the controversy has just begun. The show, which has accumulated about 5 billion views online since launching in April, follows a group of 101 contestants as they ...

Indian film about toilets proves surprise China hit
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

A romantic comedy about going to the loo – that film would never get made, right? Wrong. Bollywood produced a movie about exactly that last year. And it is the latest film from India to take China by storm. Toilet: A Love Story ...

Local archaeologists claim China dates back 5,800 years
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

The Chinese often claim to be home to one of the oldest civilisations in the world, if not the oldest continuous one. Now, they say they have the evidence to back that up. In May the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the results ...

New rule forbids media profiling exam stars
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

Last week 9.75 million teenagers sat the two-day national university entrance exam known as the gaokao. That’s less than the high of 10.4 million in 2008 but slightly more than last year. What was perhaps more striking this year ...

Sugar Daddy service Seeking Arrangement pulled in China
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

For a brief period in May it looked like China’s professional ‘mistresses hunters’ were going to be in the money. That’s because Seeking Arrangement, the American Sugar Daddy app, was climbing the local download charts. By May 21 some ...

Two TV dramas about women getting ahead polarise opinion in China
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

At first glance, decent roles for Chinese television actresses have become much more abundant in the last few years. The trend has seen many intelligent, complicated and independent female characters feature on the small screen (see ...

A new row over the depiction of conflict with Japan
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

In April the Chinese government introduced a law banning “glorification” of the “Wars of Aggression” – a term for the two Sino-Japanese conflicts fought between 1894 and 1945. More specifically the legislation was designed “to ...

‘Big-Hearted Mama’ nabbed by police in orphan case
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

In Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, Fagin takes in street urchins only to exploit them as pickpockets. In a scandal involving an orphanage in Hebei province, the founder Li Lijuan has been accused of something similar. After ...

New push to help elderly bridge the digital divide
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

In January, a month before Chinese New Year, a series of photos showing an old man crying on the floor of a Shanghai railway station went viral. He wanted to buy a ticket to Suzhou to see his family over the upcoming festival. He had the ...

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