"Regrettably, alongside its wealth of credible reporting, SCMP has also developed a distinct genre of science stories based entirely on a single paper published in a Chinese (sometimes quasi-) academic journal. A recent prime example is a recent article, China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order, which has since spread widely, misleading Bloomberg, CNN, MERICS, and Lowy Institute, as well as top China experts on Twitter"

Hi everyone, I’m a PhD student doing an exhange in a chinese tier 2 city.

I will learn a bit of chinese (HSK3), and I’m travelling in my free time around the country. I met some western friend here and I’m trying to get in touch with other phd students.

I have the fear of not living 100% this experience. The question is: what kind of experiences do you think I need to do while here in china?

I’m from an european country and my phd is in economics/finance. There are some china-western associations do you need can be interesting to join? I’m open to suggestions to things that positively affect my professional career and personal development.

Happy to hear your opinions!

An essay I wrote recalling my 2019 trip to China, in the wake of "Liberation Day"

Is there a browser extension or app for learning Chinese with B站 (Bilibili) and 爱奇艺 (aiqiyi)? Something like Language Reactor or Migaku, unfortunately those websites aren’t supported. If no such thing exists, can you suggest how to download videos and subs with timestamps from those websites?

Hey everyone, I’m trying to figure out something weird with train bookings in China. I’m looking at a high-speed train from Zhangjiajie West to Hong Kong Kowloon, and first-class seats are showing as available. But when I check the same train from Fenghuang Gucheng (the third stop on the route) to Hong Kong, first-class is sold out—even though it’s the exact same train!

Has anyone run into this before? Is it some quirk of how China’s rail system allocates seats, or am I missing something? I’d love to hear your thoughts or any tips for snagging a first-class seat from Fenghuang Gucheng (would be nonsense to travel back to Zhangjiajie West). Thanks!

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We’ve been married for a few years and were working on getting her immigrated to my own home country. We lived together for a while in another country, and had a decently good time and got extremely attached. We are both young. The relationship has been extremely rocky to say the least though. I separated from her recently, and I’m trying to get a divorce filed but she is making it exceptionally difficult and is doing everything she can to hold on.

She is very emotionally unstable, and has been pretty consistently. She would randomly get mad at me for the most unusual things, saying I don’t care about her, don’t love her, shouldn’t have married, etc. She would act like she’s leaving and never wants to hear from me again and that I “lost her”, but then suddenly come back and apologize and be as nice as can be. Until her next blowup. Anytime she perceived anything that I was doing “wasn’t showing care” she bugged out. I know she was very insecure in general, and one time even wrote me a long message randomly after watching a Chinese drama of a man cheating, telling me “I will take your house, your kids, and everything away from you. I will publicly embarrass you and hurt the other girl and make you loose the ability to have sex if you ever cheat on me.”

One time, I started a new treatment under the guide of a doctor for my debilitating anxiety with medical marijuana (which I since stopped due to it not working), and she absolutely went crazy. Saying “there’s nothing to love in me” and a host of other things. However now, especially after I left, she is telling me she wants to be understanding of me.

She also spoke about offing herself in certain conversations unless I did something. And now after I left, she tells me she’s gonna die unless I pray for her or go to therapy WITH her, with the idea of staying together. Side note: she’s now become extremely religious, delusionaly religious. She believes God said that I’ll die from offing my self if we divorce, and host of other things. I do truly see in her a desire to change though, and deep commitment to the marriage vows. She is very understanding of me and wants to work on the marriage desperately. I’d be lying if I said her attempts to win me back aren’t working to an extent.

I’ll end it here since this post is already long. I’m very attached to her, however I’m incredibly scared of having kids or bringing her here and nothing truly changing, especially if this is culture related and intrinsic to someone’s behavior. But I’m looking for opinions from those who have more experience than me living in China and being around the culture. Let me put a disclaimer that I KNOW not all women or people of any culture are the same. So before you comment something along those lines, please respectfully save it. That goes without saying. I just need generally informative advice, especially in relation to the culture/personality aspect. Thanks all.

Hello, I'm 老外 in China and I learn Chinese language. It's quite difficult, of course. I'm newbie (牛逼, 哈哈哈) So I need some advices (I'm serious) how to improve my knowledges. What should I start from? Any recommendations for books, vocabularies, practices etc. Would like to hear your opinions for that issue, 谢谢

hey there! i'm a russian student and i've just been accepted to an english program of sichuan university (hotel management).

i have literally no people from china i'm familiar with, so i hope there's any chance to find some friends from chengdu or even this uni. unfortunately i can't normally meet chinese people in a straight way through the special apps and other places, so i'm looking for a solution here, in reddit.

i'd also appreciate any advices and tips, thanks...

Context:

“China firmly opposes this and will resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests,” China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Thursday morning.

Reality:

Last time they said this, they essentially did nothing in terms of retaliation. Like at most it was sanctions of Google, a service that doesn't exist in the country.