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Fan Zhendong's German Chapter Opens With a Question About How He Wants to Be Remembered

In a promotional film for his new German club Borussia Düsseldorf, the Chinese table-tennis star was asked how he hopes fans will remember him when he retires. His answer — that titles go on the résumé but the person stays in the heart — has become the week's most-shared sentiment in Chinese sport.

Travel

Visa-Free China: Foreign Tourists Now Come to Shop, and to Work the Fields

Foreign arrivals keep climbing under China's widened visa-free regime, and this Golden Week the visitors are conspicuously not just sightseeing: they are shopping with tax refunds, checking into cruise ships, and paying to pick tea in Guangxi.

Life Stories

Mo's Chicken Pot, the Restaurant That Went Viral Against Its Will, Cools Back to Ordinary

Six months after a review video turned a Shunde chicken-pot restaurant into a national pilgrimage site, first-day holiday occupancy is about sixty percent, staff are down from 180 to a little over 30, and the 'boss who least wanted to be famous' says his 1.8-million-yuan debt is cleared and he is happy to be ordinary again.