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Startup Apps in the New Year Cab hailing, food delivery, and every service you can possibly need (or don’t need) seems to have an app nowadays. Internet startups have completely revolutionized our lives. For those who live in Beijing, there are a few...

Startup Apps in the New Year


Cab hailing, food delivery, and every service you can possibly need (or don’t need) seems to have an app nowadays. Internet startups have completely revolutionized our lives. For those who live in Beijing, there are a few startups making enough noise that you might have already noticed in the New Year. Will they survive and continue to transform our city and our lives, or will they be among the majority that fall into oblivion when they run out of money? That’s a question only users and time will answer.


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The Fall Of The Han Anyone who has been lumbered with the moniker “Spokesperson for a Generation” has quickly found it a millstone around their neck. Bob Dylan despised it; for Kurt Cobain, the weight of expectation contributed to his suicide; and...

The Fall Of The Han


Anyone who has been lumbered with the moniker “Spokesperson for a Generation” has quickly found it a millstone around their neck. Bob Dylan despised it; for Kurt Cobain, the weight of expectation contributed to his suicide; and Douglas Coupland was asking for trouble with his books riffing on the nature of Generation X and Generation A. 

But for Chinese literary star Han Han (韩寒), it never seemed a problem. From his successful debut—Triple Door (2000), which was the best-selling novel in China in 20 years—Han arrived as a celebrity, aged just 17. In many ways the high school dropout remained the eternal teenager. Now in his mid-30s, he still looks like the frontman of a Korean boy band.


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Invasion of the Ticket-Snatchers The calendar New Year just passed, but the Spring Festival, or, the Lunar New Year, is just around the corner. As the most important traditional festival in China, the Lunar New Year a time when people all around the...

Invasion of the Ticket-Snatchers


The calendar New Year just passed, but the Spring Festival, or, the Lunar New Year, is just around the corner. As the most important traditional festival in China, the Lunar New Year a time when people all around the country go back home to be reunited with their families. Migrant workers, university students, and anyone else who lives away from their hometown have already started booking train tickets since almost two months ago—or at least trying.


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New Law Puts TCM in all Hospitals Modern China has incorporated Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into its healthcare plans ever since the days of Mao Zedong (though there are reasons to think Mao himself was skeptical of its efficacy), but a new...

New Law Puts TCM in all Hospitals


Modern China has incorporated Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into its healthcare plans ever since the days of Mao Zedong (though there are reasons to think Mao himself was skeptical of its efficacy), but a new law ushered in on Christmas Day will enhance its role in Chinese medicine like never before.

The law itself rests on the premise that traditional Chinese medicine works; there is very little emphasis on transparency or subjecting treatments to rigorous, neutral testing. China’s official news agency Xinhua even points out that the aversion to clinical testing among many TCM practitioners has resulted in widespread skepticism.


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10th Anniversary Party Invitation The World of Chinese magazine cordially invites you to join The World of Chinese 10th Anniversary Party and “The Beauty of Periodicals in China” art exhibition. We’ve prepared an afternoon of special guests, great...

10th Anniversary Party Invitation


The World of Chinese magazine cordially invites you to join The World of Chinese 10th Anniversary Party and “The Beauty of Periodicals in China” art exhibition.

We’ve prepared an afternoon of special guests, great stories, and cake. We are also looking forward to having you choose your favorite TWOC design from the last ten years.

If you want to join us, please leave your name, company/organisation, phone number and email address in the comments below, or send them to [email protected]. We will contact you.

Where: 2nd floor, Hanfenlou Bookstore, 36 Wangfujing Street, Beijing

When: November 25th, 2016, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

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Tales of the Marvelous: Ma Zheng Pei Xing (裴铏) was known as a pioneer of short fiction in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), largely because of his work Tales of the Marvelous (《传奇》), a three-volume collection of short stories. Each tale focuses on an...

Tales of the Marvelous: Ma Zheng


Pei Xing (裴铏) was known as a pioneer of short fiction in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), largely because of his work Tales of the Marvelous (《传奇》), a three-volume collection of short stories. Each tale focuses on an individual, often involving immortals, fairies, magical beasts, and dazzling heroes. Little is known of the author’s life, except that he was appointed the deputy governor of Chengdu in 878. Chuanqi became a literary genre unto itself, and eventually served as the inspiration for operas, folklore and later literature. Only 31 stories remain, the rest lost to history; here is one of them.


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Of Foreign Cabbages and Many Things It’s said that in the age of outsourcing, globalization, and supermarkets, people no longer know where their stuff comes from. Not so for the ancient Chinese. In their day, as increased trade across the empire’s...

Of Foreign Cabbages and Many Things


It’s said that in the age of outsourcing, globalization, and supermarkets, people no longer know where their stuff comes from. Not so for the ancient Chinese. In their day, as increased trade across the empire’s borders brought new foods and other objects into their daily orbits, the Chinese invented names for these novelties. These names helped exotic objects assimilate into ordinary life while preserving the distinction of their very foreign roots, and as well as the exact nature of China’s foreign relations at the historical period when they were introduced.


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SINGLES’ DAY SALE BREAKING NEWS! There are only a few more days till November 11—the day when unattached people everywhere celebrate the fact they are alone by copiously splurging on material goods. And, as if answering all your prays, TWOC is...

SINGLES’ DAY SALE


BREAKING NEWS!

There are only a few more days till November 11—the day when unattached people everywhere celebrate the fact they are alone by copiously splurging on material goods.

And, as if answering all your prays, TWOC is slashing prices on our digital subscription service.

From now until midnight on November 8th, simply by downloading China Dispatch and subscribing, you can take advantage a 50% discount.

No codes to enter, no coupons to handle, no minimum purchase—just head on to the app and subscribe.

What are you waiting for? Go get it now!

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ELECT THE ELECTORS This fall, millions of people across China are competing at the polls for a once-in-five-years’ chance to become one of 2.5 million “people’s representatives” in their townships, counties, or municipal sub-districts. These...

ELECT THE ELECTORS


This fall, millions of people across China are competing at the polls for a once-in-five-years’ chance to become one of 2.5 million “people’s representatives” in their townships, counties, or municipal sub-districts. These individuals are chosen from an even more bloated pool of hopefuls who, since August, have attended information meetings, gathered a minimum of 10 nominating signatures from registered voters in their electoral district (or else were nominated by their party, political organization or work unit), and made it through primary elections as well as their local electoral committee’s vetting process to end up on the final candidate list.


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THE VIRAL WEEK THAT WAS: EP 87 “*The Viral Week That Was is our weekly round-up of the previous week’s trending memes, humor, rumor, gossip, and everything else Chinese netizens are chatting about. Think of this as a nicotine patch to help ease...

THE VIRAL WEEK THAT WAS: EP 87


*The Viral Week That Was is our weekly round-up of the previous week’s trending memes, humor, rumor, gossip, and everything else Chinese netizens are chatting about. Think of this as a nicotine patch to help ease yourself into the working week after suckling on the smokey teat of the weekend.

Welcome back to this edition of the Viral Week. Coming up on today’s show, we bring you a Chinese Spiderman, a basketball player banned for wearing Nikes, a Chinese boxing world champion, and the battle between Beijing smog and air travel. But first…


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