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In Praise of Not Getting It: China Revisits the Art of 'Dullness Resistance'

In Praise of Not Getting It: China Revisits the Art of 'Dullness Resistance'

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A viral thread of veiled insults whose authors failed to notice them for years — from barbers, from colleagues, from a supervisor — has made 'dullness resistance', the borrowed self-help term for emotional impermeability, the concept of the week on Weibo. The jokes are about missed barbs; the undertone is a late reckoning with how many of them there were.

Ten Tonnes of Ancient Coins Pulled From a Construction Site Turn Out to Be a Medieval Trade Hub's Ledger

Excavators at a construction site in Liaoyang, Liaoning province, unearthed more than ten tonnes of ancient coins — 36 types spanning the Han dynasty to the Jin — and the hoard is now a museum 'money mountain' that maps the trade routes of medieval northeast Asia.

Stephen Chow Sells His Mainland Cinema Business for One Hong Kong Dollar

Stephen Chow Sells His Mainland Cinema Business for One Hong Kong Dollar

Bingo Group, the film company controlled by Stephen Chow, has agreed to sell the subsidiary that ran the actor-director's mainland cinema chain for HK$1 — a token price for a business sitting on net liabilities, disclosed the same week China's National Day box office fell to its weakest since 2014.

How Sisyphe, China's Biggest Mall Bookstore Chain, Actually Makes Money

A trending explainer has pulled back the curtain on Sisyphe's business model: the books are the bait, coffee and stationery are the profit, and the cheapest rent in the mall goes to the store that makes the mall look cultured.

Leaked Posts and a Move-Out: Reality TV's Best-Loved Family Story Sours in Public

Leaked Posts and a Move-Out: Reality TV's Best-Loved Family Story Sours in Public

Screenshots attributed to the matriarch of China's most beloved reality-TV family — the Dalian household that took in rural X-Change participant Li Leyou a decade ago — insult the young woman's birth family, and the family is having the leaks complained away even as Leyou moves out, abandons the account built on her story, and posts about having nowhere that belongs to her.

Nine Uncles Dyed Their Hair Different Colors for a Niece's Wedding in Henan

Nine Uncles Dyed Their Hair Different Colors for a Niece's Wedding in Henan

A wedding video in which nine maternal uncles arrive with nine differently dyed heads of hair has become China's favourite family story of the week, thanks to a pun about giving troublemakers 'a bit of colour' — and a reminder of the special standing of a mother's brother.

Homework now arrives at Chinese families as a file in a class chat group, and the cost of printing it — up to 300 yuan a semester for one subject — has set off a national argument about who should supply the paper.

Why China's Schools Stopped Printing Homework, and Parents Started Paying

7 Oct 2026

Cash still leads China's wedding gift ledgers, but guests of post-2000 couples are increasingly giving Switch consoles, game skins, streaming memberships and prepaid property fees — practical gifts for a practical generation, entered in the same old ledger and owed back in kind.

Game Skins and Streaming VIPs: What China's Youngest Wedding Guests Put in the Gift Ledger

6 Oct 2026

The dance-poem production inspired by a Song-dynasty landscape scroll reaches 1,000 performances with a symphony edition at the Water Cube — a milestone for China's touring stage industry and its heritage aesthetic.

Dance Poem 'Only This Green' Marks Its Thousandth Performance at Beijing's Water Cube

6 Oct 2026

China's October holiday overlaps with the corn harvest in the northeast, and this year the annual homecoming labor turned into a trending phrase about feeling “the world split in two” between AI-era office life and a field of maize. The trend's most celebrated participant is a fresh Asian Games silver medalist who spent her holiday shucking corn on camera.

Golden Week Sends China's Urban Workers Home to Shuck Corn

6 Oct 2026

A symbolic 10,000-yuan crowdfunding target for the sequel to a beloved Chinese indie game blew past 20 million yuan this week. The producer's response — livestreamed appeals, a kowtow to the camera, a plea not to be 'made into a god' — has become the story.

Why the Creator of 'ICEY 2' Is Begging China's Gamers to Stop Donating

4 Oct 2026

A new artifact in China's hit animation 'Renegade Immortal' — a stone coffin said to raise the dead — sent fans hunting for its real-world model. They found it in Xi'an's Beilin Museum: the Sui-dynasty sarcophagus of a nine-year-old court girl, carved with a curse that reads 'whoever opens it dies.'

'Renegade Immortal' Fans Trace a Cartoon Coffin to a Real 1,400-Year-Old Sarcophagus

4 Oct 2026

'Slave-Labour Theory': China's Viral Argument Over Who Sets the Quality of Service

4 Oct 2026

The Douyin account of Huihui Baobao — an influencer whose staged 'gifts to street cleaners' videos collapsed under scrutiny this week — has been cleared and blocked, the platform's most visible punishment yet for charity performed as content.

Douyin Wipes the Account of Huihui Baobao, the Influencer Who Turned Charity Into Content

4 Oct 2026

A trending debate accuses Chinese TV writers of flattening heroines from less-educated backgrounds into romance props — and has widened into an argument over whether the industry can write anything else at all.

Viewers Say Chinese Dramas Can No Longer Write a Low-Education Heroine

3 Oct 2026

Why China's Shopping Malls Spent the Holiday Advertising Scientists

3 Oct 2026

A German primary-school reader still used in classrooms tells children that many Chinese have no car and greet each other with a bow. Chinese readers, looking at a page frozen somewhere in the 1980s, have made it one of the week's biggest arguments.

What a German Schoolbook Tells Children About China, and Why It Angered Chinese Readers

3 Oct 2026

A viewer's simple list of three drama heroes with mistresses, ex-wives and illegitimate children has become the week's sharpest television argument in China — a fight over what the country's mostly female costume-drama audience will forgive its heroes, and why heroines are now being written to walk out.

Chinese TV Audiences Turn on the 'Second-Marriage Male Lead'

2 Oct 2026