Wired • 24th May 2017AlphaGo's Ke Jie defeat offers a sobering look at the future of man vs machine China's 19-year-old Go player Ke Jie faced off against Google's AI – and it beat him at his own game.
Vice Munchies • 22nd May 2017This is what 5,000-year-old beer tastes like Stanford University researchers discovered the ancient recipe in northwest China, now a Beijing brewpub is serving its own version.
Vice Munchies • 15th May 2017This restaurant celebrates a brutal era in Chinese history Chongqing is full of restaurants themed around the Cultural Revolution.
VICE Motherboard • 11th May 2017China is on track to fully phase out cash Experts believe that it won't be long before the country, the first to introduce paper money, ditches coins and notes for good.
CNN Style • 1st May 2017Saving China's abandoned Tulou homes Tulou buildings, found in China's southwest Fujian province, are some of the most stunning historic structures in the country.
Time Out Beijing • 27th April 2017Gate To Otherside "appreciate the essence of shamanism" The Beijing psych-rockers are launching their mysticism-inspired debut album.
Vice Munchies • 25th April 2017An 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’.”
Vice Munchies • 24th April 2017Chengdu Is obsessed with sucking brains out of rabbit skulls The eyeball popped out easily—an assertive index finger thrust into the head cavity, a "come here" pull-back with the same finger, and it was out with little fuss.
The Times • 21st April 2017Interpol hunts for Chinese whistleblower Guo Wengui said that the notice for his arrest was an attempt to silence his corruption claims.
The Times • 21st April 2017Boy, 7, jumps from building holding umbrella and survives Pictures on social media show the boy lying injured on the ground with the still-open red umbrella.
The Times • 20th April 2017No loose change? Just scan here, says beggar with a barcode The beggar in Shandong province wears a printout of barcode around his neck. A state newspaper urged people to “boycott these professionals”.
The Times • 20th April 2017School spy squads stamp out ‘puppy love’ Relationships between pupils are viewed as an unhealthy distraction from their studies by some authorities in China.