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For 388 yuan, Hengdian World Studios will turn an ordinary visitor into the lead of their own short drama. The studio's longest-serving customers are older Chinese women who spent decades watching palace dramas — and are now paying to play the empress.
An elderly visitor in Huangshan tried to film a fish-lantern show and picked up nearly 20 pop-up ads in half a minute. A CCTV investigation into China's 'digital psoriasis' shows how app developers hunt older users — and why the ads keep coming back.
Shanghai's housing regulators moved on September 28 to wind down China's off-plan pre-sale model — new projects must be structurally complete before they can sell — even as the city's market thaws and buyers bid up its oldest, smallest flats.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
China's women opened the Asian Games doubles final with an 11-0 game on the way to a 4-0 sweep, while Lin Shidong came from two games down to set up an all-Chinese men's final — after a tournament in which he played all four events.
Zhipu's ZCode coding assistant was found packaging users' entire codebases for upload. After some 400 developers organized, the Hong Kong-listed AI firm apologized, open-sourced the client and, on Sunday, published a compensation plan.
A web novelist's viral complaint that her book was gutted in adaptation has hit a nerve in China's booming micro-drama industry — the same week regulators moved against platforms that quietly bill elderly viewers for shows they never meant to subscribe to.
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