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China is always dealing with societal issues that they perceive as a threat. The government is now worried about the influence of Korean pop culture on its boys. Korean society has put effeminate males into the main stream, and it has carried over to Chinese society. Now, the government has decided that its own boys should not copy this effeminate trend. Chinese men will be men. But has China ever had a masculine culture? Will its effort prove effective? We answer all of these questions and more in this video.
You can now pay girls on the Chinese internet to pretend to be your girlfriend, tell you a goodnight story, wish you luck at work, and flirt with you. These websites cater to the lonely men and women in China who can't find a meaningful relationship.
China's Streaming Boom! Everything is getting streamed here in China. From girls sucking bananas, to putting on fishnets, to sexy dances, to eating live mice, it is safe to say that China's streaming boom is getting out of control. The flurry of hearts, likes, and comments is reminiscent of Periscope. What’s different is that some users are giving virtual gifts – which cost real money – as a gesture of appreciation to the live stream host. The broadcaster can then cash out the gifts to make money from their live streaming antics. It’s creating a wave of web celebrities.
Weibo is not the first to be doing this in China. Several new video apps have popped up in China this year catering to a nascent but growing demand to watch fellow netizens do everything from eating to playing video games to shilling cosmetics. The country’s snowballing live streaming is also creating new web celebrities. Zhang Qige, a 23-year-old woman who plays games while chatting on her webcam, claims to have made US$150,000 in the past year from her online capers. Some make it even bigger, such as Papi Jiang, a 29-year-old drama student turned comedian seen here in one of her skits:
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Living in China for so long, we would like to share some of the comparisons that we have found between China and the west, and shed some light on the situation
I feel incredibly sad for a large segment of the Youth of China today...
We tell some of the craziest stories we have about girls we've met in China. These don't represent everyone, but it does open an interesting conversation about the definition of relationships between Chinese and western culture.
Why do so many people tell us that "we are stealing their women?". We address this very difficult topic very straight forwardly.
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