One of China’s Most Popular Female Cosplayers Is Actually a Dude
Looking at photos of Chinese cosplayer CROME拉面猫就是星空萌 dressed up as some of the most famous anime heroines, you would never guess that the person under all that makeup and female clothes is a man. A former art teacher, CROME拉面猫就是星空萌 now works as a full-time cosplayer, regularly posting new photos and updates for his legion of online […]
10-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Grows Mould in Ear Canal Due to Wearing Earbuds Too Much
Chinese media recently reported the bizarre case of a 10-yer-old boy who allegedly developed black mold in his ear canal because of wearing earbuds for long periods of time. You would think that the human body had some way of preventing mould from developing, even in dark and secluded orifices like the ear canals, but […]
Woman Forced to Literally Sleep With One Eye Open After Botched Plastic Surgery
A Chinese woman claims she has had to use a strip of tape to sleep at night after botched double eyelid surgery left her unable to completely close her eyes. The woman, referred to by Chinese media only as Ms. Ma, reportedly paid 20,000 yuan ($2,800) for a double eyelid surgery at the Jimei Plastic […]
Man Returns Home After Seven Months, Finds It Taken Over by House Plants
A Chinese man who spent seven months away from his apartment in Langfang, Hebei Province, recently returned to find his home had transformed into a small botanical garden. The unnamed man took to social media to share videos and photos of what he found when he entered his home, after being away for almost seven […]
Chinese Parents Take Wealthy Son to Court For Not Taking Care of Them
An elderly couple from China’s Henan province took legal action against their own son for neglecting his duty of financially supporting them. Filial piety isn’t that important of a notion in the Western world, but in China it’s a big deal. Failing to take care of your elderly parents is actually considered a legal offense […]
Aquarium Draws Criticism for Writing Popular Surnames on Live Fish
In a bid to make its exotic fish tank more appealing to visitors, an aquarium in the Chinese city of Guizhou wrote popular Chinese surnames on the live fish, attracting the wrong kind of attention in the process. Staff at the Guizhou Polar Ocean World thought they had struck gold when they came up with […]
China’s Plastic Surgery Poster Girl Has Had Hundreds of Procedures Done Since She Was 14
China’s cosmetic surgery market was estimated to be worth around $31 billion in 2018, with double digit growth per year, and at the forefront of it is a 30-year-old self-confessed cosmetic procedure addict who had her first work done when she was only 14. Wu Xiaochen, or Abby, as she is known on social media, […]
Patient’s Persistent Cough Turns Out to Be Caused by Chicken Bone Stuck in Lung for 14 Years
A 22-year-old Chinese woman who suffered from a persistent cough was shocked to learn that she had a piece of chicken bone lodged in her lung. After 14 years of checkups and X-rays to figure out what had been causing her persistent coughing for the last 14 years, a 22-year-old unnamed woman from China recently […]
The Curious Case of Two Chinese Covid-19 Patients Whose Skin Turned Brown
Chinese media recently reported the case of two doctors who got infected with the novel coronavirus while treating patients and suffered a drastic change in skin pigmentation, going from white to dark brown. Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng, both 42, became infected with the coronavirus in January, while treating patients at the Wuhan […]
Man Has Rusty Knife Blade Removed From His Head 26 Years After He Was Stabbed
A 76-year-old man from rural China can consider himself lucky to be alive after he had a four-inch-long rusty knife surgically removed from his brain, 26 years after being stabbed in the head. The case of Duorijie, an old farmer from the rural county of Haiyan in China’s north-western Qinghai Province, can be considered nothing […]
Art Teacher Spends 3 Months Drawing Chalk Version of Chinese Masterpiece on Eight Chalkboards
A young art teacher from China’s Shanxi Province was recently praised online for spending three months working on a detailed chalk rendition of a traditional masterpiece. When Zhao Wenrui, an art teacher in Fanzhi County, decided to draw a chalk version of Along the River during the Qingming Festival he just wanted to do something interesting […]
Buy One, Get Two Free: Unlucky Man Quarantined Three Times in a Row
A luckless Chinese man who reportedly spent almost two months in his home after being quarantined three times in a row became a trending topic on Chinese social media this week. Mr Xiong, from the city of Jining, in East China’s Shandong Province, spent almost the whole month of February and half of March cooped […]
Parents of Girl Who Dropped Apple From Balcony Ordered to Pay Compensation for Freak Accident
In March of 2018, an 11-year-old girl accidentally dropped an apple from the balcony of her family’s 24th floor apartment in Dongguan, China. This simple act ended up costing a toddler its future and the girl’s parents a fortune in compensation… On March 9, 2018, the unnamed girl was reportedly trying to feed the family […]
Pet Cat Survives 40 Days Locked in Apartment After Human Family Is Hospitalized with Coronavirus
Le Le, a British Shorthair cat from Wuhan, China, has become a symbol of resistance during the current pandemic, showing us human that if she could survive by herself in a locked apartment for 40 days, then we can handle a bit of social distancing and isolation too. This story of feline endurance and survival […]
Online Shopper Pays $6 Million for His Own Commercial Rocket Launch
They say you can buy just about anything on China’s leading online shopping platform, Taobao. Well, you can now add “commercial rocket launch” to that list as well. In what was originally deemed an April 1st joke, Chinese media recently reported that an anonymous online shopper paid 40 million yuan ($5.6 million) for his very […]