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‘Table for Six’: A Hong Kong comedy full of local flavor
Sunny Chan serves a tale of three half-brothers and their girlfriends with a side dish of originality and wit.
Temple excursions booming among Chinese youth
According to government data, there are currently more than 33,000 Buddhist temples in China. An increasing number of them find themselves hosting urban youth who seek an escape from the rat race.
From battlefield glory to gruesome execution: The fall of Yuan Chonghuan
How did Yuan Chonghuan, who achieved one of China’s greatest military victories and ascended to the highest ranks of government, fall so far from favor that he ended up executed by lingchi, death by a thousand cuts?
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When even China Post opens a café chain, you know the coffeehouse craze is overinvested
Starbucks has just announced big expansion plans for China, but it’s not alone: China’s coffee market is now crowded with a host of new competitors and crossover brands. Not all of them will succeed.
The woodpecker plan: Haidilao’s strategy for hotpot restaurants in the time of COVID
The ongoing COVID-zero policy is making life very hard for China’s restaurants, including the biggest player in China’s hotpot market, Haidilao, which has announced losses for the first half of the year.
Power flows west to east with a new transmission line of over 1,300 miles
After a summer of power cuts around the country, the newest ultra-high-voltage line of China’s West-to-East Power Transmission Project is nearing completion, which will help feed the insatiable demand of the power-hungry coastal regions.
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China’s sprawling world of web fiction
China is producing and consuming the largest amount of web fiction in the world, with an estimated 20 million full-time, part-time, and dabbling writers. The grind is hard, and the conditions can be exploitative, but those who do it are on the vanguard of a reading revolution.
Ultimate Frisbee soars in China — as a fashion sport
For years, China's small but dedicated Ultimate Frisbee community has been trying to grow the sport in incremental fashion. Last year, quite suddenly, Ultimate exploded in popularity — but for reasons no one could have predicted, with results that not everyone likes.
50 days in Shanghai lockdown
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