Everyday China
What happens at a Han-dynasty dinner in VR?
At Hunan Museum in Changsha, a real VR experience combines excavated objects, filmed actors and a fictional dinner mystery.
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Language & Meaning
Can you search by drawing?
When you cannot pronounce a character, its shape can still be a starting point.
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Where did the tone marks go?
A Mandarin lesson may show tone marks that ordinary typing leaves out at first.
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Everyday China
How does your phone find you from space?
This is not a description of a constellation still waiting for a promised 2020 completion. The Chinese government’s January 2022 space white paper records…
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Everyday China
Who owns the pavement after a bike ride?
Dockless bicycles make starting a ride easy. Finishing it fairly is the harder design problem.
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How a parcel finds its way into a village
China Post and Cainiao’s rural delivery cooperation shows why sorting a parcel requires compatible labels, shared facilities and a final local handover.
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Why might one character look different on two phones?
A character can keep its digital identity while the font changes its visible strokes.
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Lunch delivery needs more than a drone
Meituan’s September 2026 launch report gives the service a much more specific setting: the West Bund riverside in Shanghai’s Xuhui district. It identifies…
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Who cooks at a robot canteen?
The restaurant has a precise address, rather than being an unnamed glimpse of the future: the second floor of Building 1 at the China Agricultural…
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Would you buy a snack from a robot?
A tiny Shanghai shop had a robot handing out drinks and snacks. It made an ordinary purchase into a test of what a machine can really do.
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Typing Chinese without thousands of keys
A Chinese keyboard does not need a key for every character. Typing can begin with how a word sounds.
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TV drama for an upright screen
Some Chinese dramas are filmed vertically, with episodes designed to fit the screen already in your hand.
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