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Zhan Qingyun Deletes Drama Promo After Backlash Over Feminist Marketing

One of China's best-known debaters deleted her promotional video for the drama 'Early Spring Clear Sky' after viewers argued its feminist branding could not survive its plot — the latest collision between how Chinese dramas market feminism and how their audiences audit it.

The comedian Chuonalisa spent her weekend denying that her slimmer figure came from a weight-loss injection. The accusation — and the 46,000 likes on her denial — say something about how China's fast arrival of GLP-1 drugs has changed what the public believes about any transformed body.

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Bought Back From France for 65 Million Yuan: Two Lost Volumes of China's Largest Encyclopedia Come Home

Two Ming-era volumes of the Yongle Dadian, the 15th-century encyclopedia of 11,095 volumes, surfaced at a French auction in 2020 and were bought back for 65 million yuan by a Zhejiang collector; they are now formally housed at the Hangzhou National Archives of Publications and Culture.