Hello everyone, my name is Matteo I am 23 years old from Italy. I am planning my first trip to China.

So while I was inundated with books, articles and videos about anything related to China I had an idea:

What if I found a Chinese peer who would like to go on this trip and share his life with me for a month? I immediately thought that it would not be just another vacation, but a chance to bond with a new person and a new land, an adventure in the dark, two guys visiting China and creating from 0 a small but meaningful time in our lives. And finally to be able to imprint all this on my camera and create a short film (maybe?)

A guide, a translator, a fellow traveler and a friend to whom, I would donate, in exchange for his companion, room and board for the entire period.

We could plan the trip together and find things we both like to see or go to. If you might like the idea, please write to me.

Wouldn't being rich in china be more beneficial than being rich elsewhere as a chinese?

Hey together. Im currently in China and would like to buy a few packs of Szechuan Pepper Here, cause its way cheaper than in Austria. My question now, is it allowed to export Szechuan Pepper from China or could there be problems?

Hi, Idk if this post will be considered irrelevant, but I need advice from people who are well aware of Chinese culture. So I`m 25F and almost a month ago I met a Chinese man on a language learning app. We talked to be friends and He is 34M. We shifted to Wechat in a matter of days and I was glad to have friends since I hate making small talk, either way, one day he asked me if I would consider marrying a Chinese guy and I told him I didn`t think it was possible because idk about China much. He said I had a 'Chinese aesthetic' so it could be possible and I took it as a compliment.

He then after some days asked me if having a big age gap matters to me being in a relationship, and honestly where I come from having 8-10 years age gap is normal and that is what I told him but idk why he took it as my consent to relationship and started calling me baby, etc and I told him I don`t like that at all. He seemed like a pretty decent guy, and I think that is why I gave him a free pass which can be a mistake on my end.

The next day I woke up to his post on Wechat declaring me as his treasure and I confronted him about it, we had a big argument and he told me that there was no pressure and he just liked me and his parents consented to it and maybe I should consider him as an option if I want to get into a relationship and I told him I`m not interested at all atm and he was like okay no worries.

But like I told it started progressing really badly he would talk about marriage and having kids and I would always tell him that yes he could find a good wife in the future and plan it. But I was uncomfortable the whole time and it was creepy, 2 days ago I took the plunge and told him I didn`t like all of this and I wanted to stop talking with him since I only consider him as a friend but he has feelings in his heart for me.

Next, I knew is he cried and stopped having meals and sent me a lot of texts about it and it was my fault for being gullible so I caved in and told him to eat and maybe I would talk to him. But 10 minutes in he started talking about marriage again and I felt so guilty, I don`t anyone to fall into depression because of me. Please tell me what to do and be harshly honest if you have to, I need some help.

hey everyone I am thinking of visiting china but because of a very traumatic travel in th philippines I am trying now to be aware of the stray animal situation. are there a lot ? are they in a very bad shape ? are people cruel to them ? we are aiming for the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai but also more country side cities. Any info to help me out if I should visit or not. I know it sounds silly but I had a very bad breakdown after an event I witnessed on an animal and I cannot handle it without losing it

So I was wondering as an American who has only seen videos of China why are most houses built like this and a majority live in these types of houses. Why don't they build American style suburbs, wouldn't it be better to have American style suburbs, because your closer to nature and all and with american style suburbs there is more space.

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Laowai here, sent to work in China for a while now and I have the following observations:

1. Tons of phone scam here in China. My phone has been blowing up ever since some unknown company sold my phone number. Apparently I am not the only one. People are reporting getting 10, 20, 30, even hundreds of calls/texts a day.

2. Tons of real scams here in China: any type of membership in China is potentially a scam. But what has alarmed me even more is how hospitals are also run like scams. Doctors selling you medication or giving you tests that you don't need, or even selling equipments in their office with a 3rd party contractor. Been through all this just within a few month of arriving here!

3. Tons of fake goods here: you buy someone from online and there is a good chance it is not what it has been advertised. The interesting part is that sellers here have a way of vanishing into the thin-air. You can't even leave a bad comment. Xianyu? That's a scammer's nest.

4. Other expats told me many school here produce fake students with fake GPAs and teachers pump out fake research. This causes all sorts of employment issues down the line.

5. Fake food. I found lots of plastic a meal before and gave a bad review. Afterwards the owner directly called my phone and demanded that I remove the review. A coworker recently told me one of the huge reason people are not having kids in China is "having a kids in China amounts to feeding him/her poison." This is apparently some kind of Chinese adage found online.

Best part with 1 - 5, the government doesn't give a damn! The government is more powerless than a "paolu" gym owner here in China.

Personally I have stopped spending money here except for the necessities due to all this fakery, scams and trust issues. I went to the doctors recently and actually declined their treatment plan (4 days of hospital stay costing thousands of RMB for a cough) because I could smell the BS from a mile away.

I can only imagine that there are tons of people here in China (both expats and locals) who think exactly like I do. Obviously the economy will suffer because people are hesitant to spend their money.

I live and work in China, obviously I want a better China not just for me but everyone. But it seems hopeless!

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if this art motif/pattern has a precise name in Chinese.

Thanks in advance for your attention and your help.

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Hello,

I would like to know how I can do business legally in China without living there permanently. My brother and I offer football camps. Do we need to partner with a Chinese company to promote this service? What visa we need for short stay?

I was watching a video on youtube in Chinese about PDiddy and saw this hilarious (i thought) comment underneath.

"在美国的资本主义，自由主义，个人主义体制下，富贵不搞点低俗享受那不是白富贵了么。爱泼斯坦，吹牛老爹这种掮客也是必不可少的。[吃瓜]"

Basically saying like "people in capitalist countries do evil stuff when they're rich"

As if rich Chinese are saints!

"Foe^Lmar.19", "Zoe^Fmar30", etc. What is the meaning of these Chinese nicks that you can see often on Douyin, WeChat... ?

Bahrain 0 China 1

A goal in extra time seals a second victory for China. With Australia and Saudi drawing, slim hopes of qualification now appear. Has Zhang Yuning reignited China's world cup qualification campaign? Here are the standings now:

Japan| P4| W3/D1/L0|10

Australia|P5| W1/D3/L1|6

Saudi Arabia| P5|W1/D3/L1|6

China| P5| W2/D0/L3| 6

Bahrain|P5| W1/D2/L2|5

Indonesia|P4| W0/D3/L1|3

My Chinese name is 方，昇焰 Family name: Fong First name: Shēng Yàn Meaning: Rising Flames/Rising Fire

I wanted something symbolic of a phoenix, but I didn't want a bird name.

What do you think? Is it female enough?

I brought my ps4 back home (Mexico) two years ago and with an adapter it works just fine. But now I'm here and my wife won a Series S on a raffle, is it possible to make it work there? What do I need? A 110v to 220v adapter?. Thank you.

Is China currently, as of today, recording every phone call made in China? First, this is easily within the technological, financial, and ideological abilities of China. The data storage needed to do it for a year is around that of The Way Back Machine, a non-profit company dedicated to making archives of public internet sites. The cost to set up the actual recording would be more expensive than this of course, but it would easily be affordable in China’s internal security budget. And it sounds like the type of thing the regime would do. But... googling doesn’t show any suggestion that this is the case. It seems like some US agency would know about it if it were the case and leaked the message “Hey, EVERY phone call you make to China is being recorded!” at some point. Or Chinese news would have a suspiciously large number of incriminating phone calls from people out of favor with the regime. Or some IT guy would have defected and told the world about it. So ... I’m going to say that no they don’t. Which raises the question, why haven’t they started doing it yet?

Does Chinese mythology have creatures similar to Japanese yokai such as the kappa, tengu, kitsune, oni, tanuki, futakuchi-onna, yuki-onna, etc.