How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. How about 52,000 RMB (US$8,300) worth of origami hearts? One husband in Wenzhou posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, photos of the Valentine’s Day gift he plans to give to his wife — 520 origami hearts, each made out of a 100 RMB note. The 100 [...]
Are men without money no better than garbage? Many Chinese women seem to think so, at least in this video. With that opening salvo, the battle of the sexes is well and truly on as men accuse women of materialism and women blame men for lack of ambition – a microcosm of modern China’s relationship [...]
Richie Rich, eat your heart out. China now has hundreds of thousands of millionaires, which means hundreds of thousands of burgeoning young scions. How do they spend their money? Their time? What are their values? A recent survey, the first of its kind, queried 600 of China’s “second-generation rich” (富二代). The Chinese site eg365.com.cn then transformed [...]
What is “a lot” of money in China, anyway? With over one million US-dollar millionaires in China and counting, the country’s currency doesn’t go as far as it used to. A delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference recently irked China’s blogosphere by suggesting China issue higher-denomination bills. Although that idea has been officially shelved, China’s [...]
Let the good times roll. Some on the right side of China’s economic miracle literally cannot spend the country’s currency, Renminbi, fast enough. Images have already swirled around China’s blogosphere depicting delegates to China’s annual “Two Sessions” meeting wearing the finest clothes and toting the most coveted handbags. Now, one delegate to the annual meeting [...]
Now that the firecrackers have been fired and the leftover dumplings dumped, many Chinese netizens are starting to feel the dreaded New Year’s hangover. All the gifts and red pockets, restaurant bills, train, plane and bus tickets, and those “hated fireworks” have taken their collective toll. In particular, the popular, industrial strength fireworks that light [...]
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