Fuzai is a star in China. At just two months old, the corgi was discovered by a dog trainer in a park and trained as a bomb sniffing dog. However, the one-and-a-half-year-old dog has mostly attracted attention with his little escapades since then. Most recently, he stole a sausage from a child during a patrol […]
Will we soon be able to talk to our cat? The Chinese tech company Baidu – owner of the country’s largest search engine – has filed a patent that could make just that paw-sible: Translating animal sounds into human speech using artificial intelligence. According to a document published this week by the Chinese patent authority, […]
There is certainly no shortage of jokes about the Trump administration on the Chinese internet. This image is taken from one of the wittier parodies of the US president. Alluding to the revolutionary song “We March on the Great Road” from the People’s Republic of the 1960s, it mocks US reindustrialization fantasies and MAGA. Other […]
The Tianxian Temple in Fujian province is exclusively run by nuns and has gained fame as a special retreat for women. Abbess Yin Xuan, who started rebuilding the monastery in 2014, wants to create a safe space away from the male-dominated temple world. Among the visitors who treat themselves to a break here with mountain […]
It is not necessarily a good idea to flaunt luxurious – or perhaps just seemingly luxurious – jewelry to an audience of millions, as actress Huang Yangtiantian recently had to learn. Huang posted photos of herself wearing earrings that some netizens believed cost 2.3 million yuan, the equivalent of 286,000 euros. Netizens wondered how an […]
While some American universities have already partnered with fashion brands to sell uniforms (e.g., Harvard with Nike and Columbia with Lululemon), such collaborations are still rare in China. However, they have the potential to become a blockbuster, as Tsinghua University has now demonstrated. On April 21, the university’s 114th anniversary, the German sportswear giant Adidas […]
Ever since the 2020 Security Law came into force, history in Hong Kong has been written solely by the Communist Party. However, one art project serves as a reminder that there are several ways to remember the past. On an online map, people can place markers to immortalize their personal memories of Hong Kong anonymously. […]
This supermarket in Hangzhou offers an increasingly rare sight: French cognac. It has been under scrutiny in China for some time – not for its taste, but because of competition law. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce launched anti-dumping measures in January 2024. Last October, China imposed provisional additional tariffs on importers. However, the conclusion of […]
This adorable cat gained tragic fame in recent days within the Chinese online community. Little Wukong – named after the Monkey King in the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West – recently passed away, sparking an outpouring of condolences and speculation. Wukong had already become famous several months earlier. At that time, blogger Zhao […]
They have started to pop up more and more often in Germany’s big cities such as Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt: small noodle stores that prepare and serve fresh biangbiang noodles. The hand-drawn and particularly wide noodles originally come from the Chinese province of Shaanxi, where they have been a local specialty for centuries. Biangbiang noodles […]