China’s 7 Most Embarrassing Moments 2021
1. Prominent and influential 五毛 Zheng Guocheng getting drunk, revealing his real thoughts about the regime and debating with sober 五毛 on a 4-hour livestream. He later apologised but his…
36 Dirty Tricks From Ancient China
understanding China through history and legends by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee
1. Prominent and influential 五毛 Zheng Guocheng getting drunk, revealing his real thoughts about the regime and debating with sober 五毛 on a 4-hour livestream. He later apologised but his…
The Chinese government hired a firm to recruit social media influencers as part of a new digital operation amid controversies surrounding diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, OpenSecrets’…
In countries with the freedom to protest, protesters who hit the streets always claim victimhood and demand for justice and/or policy changes. Not everyone knows that. In August 2019 in…
This is hilarious. A North Korean report (definitely not correctly subtitled/translated) says that Christmas in China has been cancelled because Santa Claus had a fall in China and nobody dared…
连坐 Wikipedia: Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political…
In a short video purportedly shot by a Chinese journalist for Singapore’s Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, Peng Shuai denied that she was ever sexually assaulted and she alleged that people…
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As I’ve always said, I have just a passing interest in martial arts. It just happened that time and again, this sport/art generates newsworthy incidents that are incredibly edifying in…
The well-known Guangdong Hakka district of 梅县 (pronounced Moiyen in Hakka meaning “Plum County”) had an urban core carved out in the centre in 1949 after the Communists took over.…
The excerpt of a document on a special kind of salt used for preserving vegetables caused a major stir on Chinese social media. It states that in the interest of…