Yes, yes, we know, everything was better in the past. Once upon a time, every middle-class student could prepare their three warm meals commonly eaten in China by themselves. At least, that’s what is often claimed. In times of fast food, food delivery services and intermittent fasting, this skill has been lost for many. This […]
A drone flies over the vast burial grounds of the Songhe Cemetery in Shanghai. The cemetery was built in 1987 and is currently the target of criticism on China’s social media due to its horrendous “real estate prices.” Anyone wishing to be laid to rest here has to pay the equivalent of up to 45,000 […]
Zoologist Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO mission to investigate the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, shows his hotel room on Twitter. In another tweet, he writes it was “surprisingly easy” to spend 14 days in quarantine. A lot of work and a nice hotel made sure that the […]
Zibo, an industrial city in the eastern province of Shandong, is China’s most popular tourist destination these days. The reason? Supposedly, it has the best barbecue in the country. The hype was kicked off by a group of students who documented a culinary trip to the previously unknown city on Douyin, the Chinese TikTok. In […]
Forty meters under the river. A visitor looks out of a window of the Baiheliang Museum. The museum is China’s first underwater museum and is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River off the coast of the city of Fuling. Inscriptions and 30,000 characters of Chinese poems are engraved on the riverbed. The […]
No flower symbolizes spring as much as the tulip. Most people first think of the Netherlands when they think of this colorful cut flower. However, the tulip originally comes from mountainous regions in Central Asia. It is a lily plant and first reached China before conquering Europe’s gardens and vases. This tourist in the town […]
After two years of the pandemic, the Chinese are again spending the five-day May vacations this year on short trips – despite traffic jams, high ticket prices, and crowds. Shanghai reported seven million visitors over the weekend alone. The travel booking website Trip.com recorded a 700 percent increase in domestic bookings compared to 2021. Here, […]
Pants down, belly out – protests are passionate and varied in Taiwan. More than 5,000 trade unionists in the capital, Taipei, celebrated Labor Day with demonstrations and rallies. They are demanding higher wages and fewer working hours. Sound familiar? No wonder. Workers’ rights are universal.