Culture

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.

Culture

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.

Computer science has fallen out of China's top ten admission-guidance rankings for the first time in years, and electrical engineering has taken the top spot, riding AI and the power-grid boom. The grumbling has already started: grid jobs are harder to land, and private-sector paths carry involution and layoff risk.