Designer Creates Innovative Card-Like Lipstick
Designer Yuru Zhang recently won a design competition with a thin, card-like lipstick inspired by the way Chinese women applied lip makeup hundreds of years ago. The humble lipstick tube feels like it has been around forever, doesn’t it? It hasn’t obviously, but it has become some widely adopted that it is basically the only […]
Woman’s Pet Micro-Pig Grows Into 150-Kg Behemoth
A Chinese woman who thought she had bought a pet micro-pig three years ago ended up with a 150-kg regular pig usually bred for its meat. In 2018, Zhang Li, a young woman living in Shanghai, decided to get a pet animal for company. She wasn’t really a cat or dog person, so she started […]
Suck-On Gadget Promises to Give Women a Coveted V-Shaped Face
A small, oval-shaped face with a well-defined and pointy V-line chin is one of the most coveted female beauty features in many Asian countries, and they can apparently get it by simply sucking on a bottle-shaped gadget for 10 minutes a day. You can buy pretty much anything online these days, but every once in […]
Meet Mao Mao, a Feline Car Model That Earns More Than Most Humans
Mao Mao, a two-year-old British Shorthair from Chongqing, China, works as a professional cat model and earns between 5,000 yuan ($775) and 10,000 yuan (1,550) per appearance. Mao Mao’s rise to fame was somewhat of an accident. Her owner, a man surnamed Zheng, works in the automotive industry, and during an auto show he had […]
Woman Spends Over $150,000 on Two Footbridges to Make Sure Her Son Gets to School Safely
A loving mother in China’s Henan province spent more than a million yuan ($154,000) building two metal footbridges in front of her son’s school, to make sure he and the other kids cross the road safely. The woman, identified only by her surname, Meng, recently told Henan Television Station that the road outside her son’s […]
China’s Rich Paying Big Money on Learning How to Recognize Fake Luxury Goods
With counterfeit luxury goods getting harder and harder to spot, China’s rich are paying thousands of dollars for specialized courses on how to tell apart authentic luxury products from fakes. China’s domestic luxury market is currently valued at approximately 4 trillion yuan ($617.7 billion) and that’s not even taking into account the second-hand luxury goods […]
Russian Man “Trapped” on Chinese Reality Show Finally Gets Voted Out
A 27-year-old Russian man who has been imploring viewers to vote him out of a Chinese boy band reality show for months, has finally got his wish, but not before making it all the way to the final. Vladislav Ivanov, a translator and part-time model from Vladivostok, Russia, is finally free after two grueling months. […]
Romantic Scammer Dated 20 Women at the Same Time, 3 of Them Living in the Same Building
Chinese media recently reported the story of a scrupulous Lothario who dated dozens of women at the same time, scamming them out of millions of dollars over a period of two years. On March 20th, a woman arrived at a police precinct in Zhengzhou, China’s Henan Province, to file a rather unusual complaint. Apparently, she […]
China’s “Stone Village” Finds Success in Selling Ornamental River Stones
A small village located on the banks of the Yangtze River, in Sichuan Province, has become known as one of China’s premier suppliers of ornamental stones, generating millions of dollars in revenue every year. Positioned in an idyllic location, right next to China’s largest river and surrounded by green, forest-covered mountains, Hejiaba village gets a […]
Retired Couple Have Been Fighting the Desert for Almost Two Decades
A retired elderly couple has been fighting the desertification of their home in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the last 19 years by planting hundreds of hectares of drought-resistant plants. Seventy-year-old Tububatu and his wife Taoshengchagan live in a village on the edge of Badain Jaran, China’s third-largest desert, and they’ve been spending […]
Muscular Body Suits Are All the Rage on Chinese eCommerce Platforms
2020 was a rough year for gym-goers, and 2021 isn’t shaping up to be much better in that regard. Luckily, you can now get the hot body you’ve always dreamed, without moving a muscle, thanks to these realistic muscular body suits. Thanks to silicone body suits like those made by Chinese company Smitizen, you can […]
China’s King of Live Streaming Sales Sells More in 12 Hours Than a Mall Does in a Year
Xin Youzhi, aka Xinba, an online personality known as China’s king of live streaming sales, recently managed to sell more products in a single day than a Hong Kong shopping mall sells in 12 months. Born in a small village in northeast China, Xinba managed to defy the odds, becoming one of the most popular […]
Human Alarm Makes a Living by Helping People Fight Procrastination
Xiao Zhu, a young “online supervisor” from Xinyang, China, specializes in helping people combat procrastination by texting and calling them to make sure they fulfill their daily tasks. With so many distractions literally just a click or finger swipe away, it’s no wonder that procrastination is considered a modern-day “plague” that keeps many of us […]
This Man Makes a Living by Breaking Up Married Men from Their Mistresses
A 31-year-old “emotional counselor” specializes in breaking up married Chinese men from their mistresses and making sure they return to their wives, who are also his clients. Xiao Sheng has been in the business of breaking up married men from their mistresses for six years, and has come a long way since he first started […]
This Moldy-Looking Bun Is Actually a Creamy Delicacy
Photos of a moldy-looking bun sold on Chinese online marketplace Taobao have been getting a lot of attention on Asian social media lately, because of its unappetizing appearance. Chinese company Nanjing Yican Foods has been turning a lot of heads with a rather unique-looking product – match and cheese bun that looks a few months […]