Before the taste buds can savor it, it is already a feast for the eyes. The hard work of the farmworkers at the tea planting station in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, makes for a colorful sight. The mostly female pickers only pluck the two finest leaves and the leaf bud and carry them in their basket […]
Today marks the start of Qingming, the festival commemorating the dead in China. Traditionally, paper banknotes and cardboard objects are burned to help the dead in the afterlife.This year, mock-ups of ice cream, seafood, maotai, razors, and air conditioners can be found on the Taobao shopping channel. To help the environment, some manufacturers are even […]
Traditional yet modern – at China Fashion Week, which was held in Beijing over the weekend, designer Xu Jia showed her YYWR collection. Her goal: blurring the line between Asian and Western fashion. Xu was born in Dandong on the border with North Korea. She now lives in Canada.
“Digital parents” are becoming increasingly popular in China’s parallel social media world. These are older influencers who refer to their followers as “sons and daughters,” comfort them, encourage them before an exam, or give simple life advice.Always-available moms and dads apparently satisfy a need. According to a 2018 UNICEF report on China, 26 percent of […]
Micro-dramas are the latest trend in China’s entertainment industry. Known as Wēiduǎnjù (微短剧) in Chinese, these are streaming series with episodes lasting no more than two minutes. They are considered light entertainment for smartphones and often revolve around romances or humorous dialogues.However, there are now more sophisticated productions as well, such as the time-traveling romantic […]
Pink aurora borealis appear in the sky above the city of Nehe, in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang – observed by a single camper in the freezing cold.Auroras are caused by the Earth’s natural electric fields in both the northern and southern hemispheres. They usually occur at high latitudes in the Arctic Circle, such as […]
After the premiere of the Netflix adaptation of the Chinese science fiction bestseller “The Three Suns” by Liu Cixin, there were bound to be heated online discussions. The fact that Netflix is unavailable in China did not stop people from comparing the series with a Chinese version released by tech giant Tencent in 2023 (film […]
At Pizza Hut Taiwan, ads featuring disgusting pizzas have become a tradition. After the franchise company went viral last year on Halloween thanks to a pizza with ghost-shaped dumplings and chicken feet, it has now stepped up its game – with this turtle pizza.The main ingredients of this abomination based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
In Shenzhen, the Milan-Shenzhen Lifestyle Week kicked off. Over the coming days, the focus in the southern Chinese metropolis will primarily be on fashion, manufacturing and music at numerous events. For the People’s Republic, this event is another step towards building cultural soft power. China aims not only to export its industrial products worldwide but […]
Shopping for air taxis on the internet – can things get any more futuristic? It is a reality on the online platform Taobao. Chinese drone manufacturer EHang has recently started selling its autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle EH216-S here. Clicking on “Add to cart” costs a whopping 2.39 million yuan (around 310,000 euros).