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> his name is literally Mao The guy didn't pick the name. "Mao" is the family name he inherited from his father. In the case of Mao Zedong and Mao Wenchao, they have the same famil…

As a native Chinese I can assure you 小红书 and 红宝书 are as close semantically to each other as the words constipation and constitution. Few would relate those two. Even the most lefti…

Just here to confirm. I have facetime setup at 5am in the morning with my family across the pacific. I've also started to exercise regularly. It's been 2 months and my sleep patter…

In Chinese there is 树(tree)大(big)招(attract)风(wind) but it is used in a way that implies the tree is innocent and the wind is at fault.

Indeed, I have a feeling that I kinda understand the material I'm listening, but the vocabulary I hear doesn't automatically become my own...

According to some estimations China spends about $12B annually on space programs. Almost on par with that of NASA. [1] $3B is a good start, and I believe India will eventually catc…

Or you could put the plate on the floor and bend your upper body down from the bed. Should achieve the same result.

You can write the most sloppy cursive Chinese character and your phone would recognize them just fine. Together with text prediction it's quite easy to get 40 characters per minute…

X11 has been doing fine in the past few years. I have both my home and office computer running it with dual 4k displays and all appear to be swell. I use Cinnamon as desktop becaus…

None of the top Chinese tech companies are state-owned. Also 2010 was before Xi Jinping. Things have changed a lot now. Now they get striked left and right by regulations. Just loo…

Have you tried listening to songs in another language? I can't listen to English and Chinese songs, but Spanish songs mostly just fly over my head.

After a few failed attempts in the start I discovered Xterminator's series[1]. Now I just roll a similar map and try to imitate what he does. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi…

In Shanghai I pay $11 per month for 16GB mobile data plus a 50M broadband at home. I pay a bit more than that for the cloud VMs on which I install VPN services.

Yeah the international version of TikTok is already restricted here in China. Last time I tried to use it with VPN but it didn't work.

If it's reciprocity, then perhaps the government should state so, lest people think the US is becoming China.

Also "national security purposes" is exactly what the Chinese government said when they banned Facebook, Twitter, etc.

> Can you find me what the 8 people arrested for actually wrote? One of the doctors saw the initial cases before they were officially confirmed. He told the news in WeChat groups t…

There was a time when I used a South Asian VPN service for YouTube, and I saw a lot of "single woman in your neighborhood" ads. I guess either that was the norm in South Asia, or t…

We drink boiled water just because we like it warm. It's part of the culture. It's also one of the reasons why there are few epidemics when natural disaster strikes. The tap water …

Took me a few seconds to realize what you are talking about..

The 2018 movie Christopher Robin didn't premiere in China. Moreover, there is no way to legally download or view the said movie in any Chinese online movie providers. I'd like to b…

Many Chinese people will respond with positive results knowing the survey is held by a foreign agency, not because they are being oppressed, but because they get suspicious and def…

I believe it's called Wu dialect. Native Chinese here, been living near Shanghai for 6 years, but never really understand the dialect.

Does she have issues with, say, pork?