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Motorcycle entrepreneur Zhang Xue brought 100 job openings to Chongqing University, with research roles advertised at 120,000–150,000 yuan a year — and students mocked the pay on the spot. The exchange has become this recruitment season's sharpest argument about what a degree is worth.
Shaanxi archaeologists have published the epitaph of Yan Jishi, a powerful late-Tang eunuch, excavated in Xi'an in 2023. The stone provides first-hand corroboration for one of the dynasty's murkiest events — the palace murder of Emperor Xuanzong in 859 — and fresh detail on how eunuch clans held power.
The San Antonio Spurs' French superstar told the American audience of '60 Minutes' that his 2025 training summer at China's Shaolin Temple was brutally hard — and that he earned a Shaolin rank. Chinese social media, which followed the pilgrimage all summer, welcomed the sequel.
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A Wuhan man won 11.13 million yuan on a 32-yuan lottery ticket, then lost it. When the ticket turned up two days after the 60-day claim window closed, the lottery center refused to pay, the court sided with the center, and he was ordered to cover 88,000 yuan in court fees. The case has become China's sharpest argument in years over whether hard rules should bend.
Phantom Blade Zero, a kungfu action game from Shanghai studio S-GAME, has sold four million copies in 72 hours and topped Steam's global bestseller chart. The launch is being read in China as proof that Black Myth: Wukong was no fluke — and as a test of whether wuxia travels.
Livestream rooms on Chinese video platforms have been passing off spliced recordings of old table-tennis matches as live games — complete with fabricated scoreboards, an invented 30:28 finale and ads for face masks sold under a star player's name — while more than 200,000 viewers cheered along, unaware.
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