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And Finally

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Chinese firm scores own goal in World Cup bet
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

There were cheers across France when Les Bleus bested Belgium to progress to the World Cup Final. But for the team’s Chinese sponsor, le triomphe might be more cause for concern than for celebration. This year’s ...

Glow with the flow

Chinese firm claims to have invented a rifle that fires laser beams
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

When cinemagoers saw Star Wars in the late 1970s, one of the great revelations was the replacement of bullets with lasers – both the stormtroopers and the rebel alliance soldiers wielded blasters that shot deadly rays. Has China ...

What’s inside China’s most high-tech temple
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

Longquan Monastery is an unusual sanctuary albeit one that was set up on the outskirts of Beijing more than a thousand years ago. The man who launched Longquan into the modern era is the monastery’s abbot, the Venerable Xuecheng, who opened ...

Relatively awful

Einstein’s diaries show anti-Chinese sentiment
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

Albert Einstein was riding the Peak Tram in Hong Kong on the day he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1922. But he was in Shanghai when he actually received news of the accolade by telegram three days later. Early accounts of ...

Only the healthy need apply

BGI boss runs into trouble with revelation of questionable company policies
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

Companies often consider their staff as brand ambassadors, making expectations of their behaviour or appearance. However, Wang Jian, chairman of BGI, might have taken the idea too far when he revealed that all his employees were required to live ...

The secret’s trout

A third of China’s salmon isn’t quite what it seems
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Thanks to a history of product quality scandals, many consumers in China believe that higher-quality food is imported. So when state broadcaster CCTV aired a segment on salmon late last month, viewers were surprised to learn that a third of ...

Uncomfortable remarks

Relationship guru banned from weibo after comfort women comments
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

She claims to have an IQ of 145. And she reckons there’s no one cleverer or better-looking than her, because “those prettier than me aren’t as smart, and those smarter than me aren’t as pretty”. Yang Bingyang, better known by her ...

Best to keep mum

Sichuan official snared after wife’s comments
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

It’s eight years since a drunk driver on the Hebei University campus tried to evade arrest for killing a woman in an accident by shouting “Sue me if you dare, my dad is Li Gang”. It didn’t take long for netizens to work out that the ...

Chinese marvels

Has China finally got the superheroes it deserves?
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

Marvel Comics first introduced Chinese cartoon characters in the late 1940s when the US was trying to contain communism by backing the Nationalists in China’s civil war. The characters were mostly villains and had connections to the Red ...

Full Marx to Xi

Huge coverage of German’s anniversary in China
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

Bottles of Karl Marx-themed champagne were unlikely mementos last weekend as Chinese tourists snapped up merchandise on an auspicious day for the German town of Trier. Marx would have turned 200 and his hometown marked the occasion with a ...

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