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Scalpers in China Sell Tickets to Be Treated at the Hospital for Hundreds of Dollars
If you thought scalpers selling overpriced tickets to concerts and sports games in the United States were bad, China’s hospital scalper situation should downright horrify you. Since most big hospitals in the country require patients to purchase registration tickets to be seen…
· Ryan General
Single Men in China Are Paying $450 to Rent Fake Girlfriends in Time For Chinese New Year
Renting fake girlfriends is yet to catch up in the Western part of the world, but in China, it has become a thriving business in recent years. The market for rentable girlfriends is especially in demand this season as the Chinese New Year is approaching. The Paper (via…
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Teenage K-Pop Star Suffers Backlash in China After Waving Taiwanese Flag
Sixteen-year-old Korean pop singer Chou Tzuyu is being punished for waving a Taiwanese flag during an online broadcast. Tzuyu’s agency, JYP Entertainment, is being forced to cancel her bookings in China as a result of the controversy surrounding the incident, reported Apple…
· Melly Lee
She Grew Up With Nothing in Rural China — Now She Runs One of the Hottest Startups in LA
To an outsider’s eye, 25-year-old Nanxi Liu might be seen as a prodigy. She was an All-American cheerleader in high school, a beauty queen, earned enough scholarship money to pay her way through UC Berkeley, founded two successful startups before the age of 25, and recently made…
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Man Buys Meat From Farmers’ Market in China — Discovers That it Glows in the Dark
One man’s shocking pork discovery will not be helping the poor reputation of meat from China. A man, surnamed Jian, from Leshan, China, found that pork he had purchased at a farmers’ market glowed blue while in the dark, reports the People’s Daily Online (via Daily Mail).
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Woman Delays Giving Birth For Five Days to Avoid a $7,600 Fine For Violating China’s One-Child Policy
China’s rollout of their new two-child policy on Jan. 1 had many expectant mothers doing everything they could to avoid giving birth. A pregnant woman due to give birth on Dec. 26 last year stayed nearly motionless for five days to delay giving birth and having to pay a 500,000…
· Laura Dang
Photographer Goes to China and India to Capture the Most Beautiful Women in the World
The photographer traveling the world to find the most beautiful women in each country is now making her way through Asia. Mihaela Noroc, 29, embarked on her project titled “Atlas of Beauty” to show that beauty can be found anywhere in the world. Her original campaign consisted…
· Ryan General
China Is Now Afraid Its Students Are Being Influenced By Western Culture
China is beginning to dismantle school programs that prepare students for studying abroad in what seems to be an effort to cut its students off from Western influences. The government has reportedly ordered some high schools to remove their international programs, reports the…
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This 10-Year-Old Girl From China is the Youngest Ever to Hold Grand Master of Memory Title
If you’ve ever had trouble memorizing a phone number because it just had one too many numbers, you’ll be impressed by the 10-year-old Chinese whiz kid who won the 24th World Mental Capacity Tournament in Chengdu. NetEase via Shanghaiist reports the girl, Yan Jiashou from Jinan…
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What It’s Like to Be the Fattest Man in China
China’s fattest man required seven men to lift him in order to make a recent visit to the hospital, reports Chinese state media. Thirty-three-year-old Deng Guiliang, dubbed “Fat Deng” by his neighbors in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, weighs over 575 pounds, according to the…
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Rich People in China Are Buying Bottles of Fresh Air From Canada Because The Air is So Bad
China’s air pollution is so bad that many of its wealthier citizens have turned what was once a gag gift into serious business for the Canadian startup behind it. The one-year-old Vitality Air company only began selling their bottled air in China less than two months ago but has…
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Watch 100 Years of Beauty in China in Under 1 Minute
In a recent video by Cut.com, they dive into showing how make-up styles have evolved in China over the last 100 years. The time-lapse video is under a minute and covers beauty trends from the 1910s to the 2010s.
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China’s Air is So Bad that a Restaurant Charged Diners Extra to Breathe Clean Air
A restaurant in China’s Jiangsu Province surprised customers by tacking on an “air purification” fee to their bills. The restaurant, based in Zhangjiagang, charged an extra 1 yuan (15 cents) per diner in order to pay for operation costs incurred by several air filtration…
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China is Now Using the World’s Most Hated Verification System to Buy Train Tickets
If you thought websites making you type in indecipherable phrases through their CAPTCHA tests was frustrating, you’re lucky you’re not a China Railway ticket buyer. The national railway operator of the People’s Republic of China is employing a new verification system for booking…
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Why China’s Poster for ‘Star Wars’ Has Everyone Pissed Off
The Chinese promotional film poster for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is causing a controversy online for noticeably shrinking down the image of the film’s black lead actor, John Boyega. The 23-year-old actor, who portrays the character Finn, had his image shrunk down and…
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Man Shows Just How Polluted China is By Vacuuming Up Its Smog For 100 Days
A Chinese artist who took to the streets of Beijing with a vacuum cleaner to collect dust from the city’s smog has made a brick from the particles. Over a period of four hours a day for 100 days, 34-year-old performance artist Nut Brother pushed a 1,000-watt industrial-strength…
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Woman Complains About Popcorn, Son of China’s Richest Man Comes to the Rescue
A frustrated cinemagoer in China has found out that sometimes it pays to complain, especially if those in power are listening. After finding her box of popcorn was only about 80 percent full, a woman posted a picture of her less-than-generous portion to Weibo, according to South…
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China is Creating the World’s Largest Cloning Factory For a Really Controversial Reason
Prompted by a shortage of beef, China is planning to build the largest animal cloning factory in the world. With an investment of 200 million yuan ($31.3 million), the factory, set to be built in Tianjin, is being developed by biotechnology firm BoyaLife and South Korea’s Sooam…
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Former Millionaire in China Goes Broke Saving Thousands of Stray Dogs From Death
Wang Yan is a 29-year-old former millionaire in China who has gone completely broke dedicating his life to saving stray dogs.
· Waylae Gregoire
Meet the 25-Year-Old Beauty Queen That China is Too Afraid to Let in the Country
(UPDATE: Anastasia Lin has NOT yet received the invitation required to apply for a visa to participate at the Miss World pageant in Sanya, China. The November 20 deadline has passed and rehearsals for the pageant will begin on November 23.) Anastasia Lin is a Chinese-born…
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Company · China · HKEX:2020
Anta Sports
Anta is China's largest sportswear group — it out-sells rivals at home and owns FILA China plus Arc'teryx and Salomon, turning national-brand pride into a global portfolio.
Company · China · HKEX:2331
Li Ning
Li Ning is the face of 'guochao' — the national-pride streetwear wave that made Chinese consumers choose a homegrown label over Nike and Adidas.
Company · China · NYSE:BABA
Alibaba
Alibaba is China's commerce-and-entertainment backbone — Taobao and Tmall shopping habits fund Youku streaming and Alibaba Pictures, tying online spending to what China watches.
Company · China · NASDAQ:BILI
Bilibili
Bilibili is where China's Gen-Z lives online — anime, gaming, and creator culture, with a fandom so loyal it powers a wildly popular New Year gala.
Company · China · NASDAQ:IQ
iQIYI
iQIYI is the 'Netflix of China' — the subscription streamer whose original C-dramas, variety shows, and donghua set what a billion-plus viewers binge.
Company · China · HKEX:1024
Kuaishou
Kuaishou is China's number-two short-video platform, where livestream selling turned everyday creators into a shopping channel and rewired how goods get sold.
Company · China · NYSE:MNSO
Miniso
Miniso turned character-IP collabs and blind-box impulse buys into a global store network — Sanrio, Disney, and Chiikawa merch you didn't plan to buy, plus its own TOP TOY chain.
Company · China · HKEX:9999
NetEase
NetEase helps explain gaming, music streaming, and online entertainment habits in Chinese consumer culture.
Alibaba · Platforms · NYSE:BABA
The Grammys created an award for Asian pop. BTS said no.
Alibaba is China's commerce-and-entertainment backbone — Taobao and Tmall shopping habits fund Youku streaming and Alibaba Pictures, tying online spending to what China watches.