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How A Reality TV Show Has Catalysed the Rise of Rap in China
Censorship? FOH! Hip hop is blowing up in Chongqing and Chengdu.
This Restaurant Celebrates a Brutal Era in Chinese History
Sichuan is full of restaurants themed around the Cultural Revolution, when millions of Chinese were exiled, tortured, and killed by the Communist regime.
An Audience with Chongqing’s Queen of Hot Pot
“There are a lot of people calling themselves ‘Hot Pot Goddess,’ but no one else calls themselves ‘Hot Pot Queen,’” says He Yongzhi, who founded a hot pot empire in 1982.
Capsized Yangtze River Cruise Boat Is Righted, With Hundreds Still Missing
The focus of the rescue mission in southern China has now changed from pulling out survivors to retrieving dead bodies, with 340 people still missing, and only 14 survivors.
Hundreds Missing After Cruise Ship Capsizes on China's Yangtze River
Only 12 survivors have been rescued so far, out of around 450 passengers who were traveling between two cities in the southwest of the country when the boat went down during a cyclone.
This Chinese Restaurant Gives Discounts to Customers with Short Skirts
Yang Jia Hot Pot Restaurant in Jinan recently held a promo day on which the amount of thigh female customers exposed was measured, with discounts offered based on how many inches of flesh were on display.
Is Ghost Bath Really China's Answer to Deafheaven?
Stream the Chongqing quartet's latest album, 'Moonlover' in its entirety, and decide for yourself.
Chinese Restaurants Are Weighing Customers and Giving the Fat Ones Free Food
In Chongqing, southwest China, two restaurants are luring portly men into their venues by weighing them and offering discounts and free meals based on how heavy they are. Women, however, can only claim discounts if they are under a certain weight.
Japan Is Not Happy About a Chinese Newspaper Mocking Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese officials have lashed out at a Chinese newspaper map that marked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with cartoony nuclear explosions.
China's Largest City Will Double Its Surveillance Cameras to 510,000
If you're in the global surveillance camera business, China isn't just the best place to manufacture your products: it's also your target market. Officials in China’s largest city / megapolis Chongqing plan to spend $781.6 million by 2014 to...
Crowded Chongqing
Chongqing, sitting at the junction of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, is home to more than 30 million people. It is not only one of the most crowded cities in the world but also the fastest growing.