Society
19.06.2017
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Online Celebrities: Clicking Careers
A Rising Phenomenon Papi Jiang, a 30-year-old living in Beijing, is a phenomenally popular online celebrity. Born Jiang Yilei, Papi Jiang began uploading short, funny and original videos in October...
Hangzhou: QR City
Hangzhou, capital of the southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, has newly become famous as a “mobile payment city” after a news report that sounded a little funny. On March ...
03.05.2017
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Cheers to Tourism
In the late 1980s, I visited a Western country for the first time, and still recall being struck by the cafes and bars along the streets and admiring the people spending their d...
14.02.2017
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Universal Two-Child Policy: Smiles and New Worries
On January 1, 2016, China officially abandoned the one-child policy, which had been in place in the country for more than three decades, in favor of a universal “two-child” era,...
14.02.2017
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Cuban Inspiration
I took a five-hour flight between Peru and Havana, Cuba to accomplish my long-held dream of visiting the famous Caribbean socialist country.
01.01.2017
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01.12.2016
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Vague and Complicated Middle Class
As defined by Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report in 2016, those who annually earn US$28,000 to 280,000 in China are considered “middle class,” of which China tallies 109 million.
Tug-of-War
Lanzhou hand-pulled beef noodles, named after their origin city in Gansu Province, are representative of northern China’s Muslim cuisine. Nowadays, those noodles are found not o...
01.12.2016
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Inspired by Ohrid
Despite a small permanent population of only about 40,000, the town of Ohrid in Macedonia attracts more than 2 million visitors annually, from every corner of the world.
01.12.2016
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60
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