I know that studying in America has always been a popular option for students in China, but the recent news in America reports a decrease in the number of such students studying in American universities. In your experience, is there less interest in studying in America or are Chinese students just more interested in staying at home and studying in China?

How big of a problem is it in China for people to be secretly recorded in a locker room or spa and for it to be posted on social media?

I came across two videos as I was scrolling through twitter and saw two videos whose captions were in Chinese and one was of 20 year old guys in a locker room getting naked to go to the spa and the other was of 30 year old guys walking around naked. But in both videos the guys didn’t look directly into the camera and they didn’t seem to be notice they were being filmed.

Is it also very common for men to be victims of this in China?

难过。我的论文依旧不成气候，从下午到今晚我的知网一直无法登陆学校机构账号，我数据也没有，文本也无法引用。 此外，了解到诸多比赛早已截止报名时间，即使人民币玩法目前也无从下手。
崩溃。为什么绩点占比还不到50%。

真的，我真恨。

同样，我也悔。

恨绩点学分占比低，恨LLL老师论文只给我了70+

悔自己为什么rank没有第一第二，我当时应该多参加些竞赛的，可是，说实话我不喜欢打比赛，我觉得与人商量扯皮是一件极其麻烦的事情，既然都是AI 完成，那我为什么不直接和AI沟通？这也就导致了我现在一个竞赛都没有，我的3%靠谁来拯救。

或许是人本剑吧，即放不下推免名额又不想保本校，考研也是畏惧不前，想要推免后的赞赏与gap,工作也没有任何实习经历，哈哈其实自己也没有什么值得企业支付报酬的能力。逢人就倾倒苦水，活脱脱现世祥林嫂。

拉扯焦虑😕细想目前来看无疑是一段较为失败的生活，即使第一学年有1w奖学金，但第二学年排名下降，估计没有这么多了。其实我很害怕发奖学金，因为潜意识里第二年的奖学金一定要比第一年高或者持平才说得过去，奈何今年可能一半不到。我都担心别人问我。。。

书籍也就读过《以日为鉴》和《窄门》

爱恨两茫茫吧。我多么想毕业后能给别人代4年课程，那种你外出实习，我来上课写作业，说不定还能获得个奖学金，优秀大学生称号。你最好每个月给我生活费就好吧。甚至一个疯狂的念头本科毕业后再去高三复读。

我想无忧无虑，自由自在度过一个大学时光。现在不是，未来估计也不是，也许我们二者无缘。

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晚安，祝好梦。

Hello! I was wondering if there were chinese books that have been translated to english (if that is even common?). I've been reading a lot of foreign books translated to english recently and I tend to really love the story telling from different countries.

I'm really interested in horror, thriller... heck I'll read romance and classics at this point. I can't read chinese very well and my mom used to read books for me and act as a dictionary but thats not possible now! I recently found that korea has an online library where their books are translated so I thought maybe there's something similar.

Thanks in advance (please don't recommend 3 body problem lol)

I really like this song 今夜不想扛我想醉一场（撕裂版）by 林小玥 and i think its chinese but i cant find the lyrics to translate to english.

If someone can find it for me that would be great

Recently installed an international bilibili app and don't know who to follow there. I'm interested in gaming, traveling mostly but absolutely any recommendation will do! Who do you watch and why?)

My favourite dumplings to-date are the xiaolongbao. Had them in Chinatown in London and still chasing that thrill…
Unfortunately I have to go simpler today: I want to make steamed dumplings with store-bought skins.
Filling: I have ground pork and beef. Spring onions (chives), ginger, many spices and sauces.
Even bought Chinese black vinegar, and I must say that it is absutely delicious!

Will love to get tips and tricks for filling, sauce and steaming process!
Thank you!!

hello

这里是我的树洞！

I’m an indie musician/ solo artist and obviously social media is a bit part of marketing and audience outreach nowadays.. HOWEVER, I do feel like since TikTok was bought by the USDS Joint Venture LLC that the app is BRUTAL for putting view ceilings and shadowbanning new artist accounts.. constantly shoving promotion offers in my face. It’s pay to win now. As a small artist with no record label/ marketing support Im trying my best to make daily content to have reach. I can post something that will get over 200 views and almost 30 likes in less than an hour but as soon as it reaches 260 views.. NOT SO FAST. The algorithm stonewalls my video and starts pushing promo payment plans in my face. I honestly want to see if the Douyin app does the same or I would have more success posting there. At this point I would rather pay someone who could manage a Douyin account for me than pay TikTok for “promos” when I feel systematic interference between me and my audience. Is anyone here eager to talk about this with me or redirect me somewhere more fitting??

hi everyone!! i befriended a chinese international student last year, and she’s honestly really sweet. however, it’s gotten to a point where she’s relying entirely on me to pass our classes. i don’t mind helping her, but sometimes i’ll spend entire class periods explaining basic concepts, with no time to develop my own understanding. she also gets very upset/frustrated with me when i don’t know things, or can’t explain them simply enough for her to understand. i’ve tried to redirect her to speak to our teacher, but now it seems like she doesn’t want to speak to me at all - only when she wants me to explain things, or drive her places, or buy lunch for her, and she seems not to care about me beyond what i can do for her. im planning to approach her about this soon, but i just wanted to know if there’s cultural background i should be aware of - are friendships generally more transactional in china compared to in the west? (im in australia). thanks in advance for your help!!

Hi everyone,

When do tickets for these games usually go on sale? Also, would anyone with a Chinese phone number be willing to help me purchase the tickets?

The games

October 27: Shanghai Port vs. Cong An Hanoi

October 29: Shanghai Shenhua vs. Machida Zelvia

I’ll be visiting Shanghai around that time and would really love to attend both games. Any advice and help to get tickets as a foreigner would be greatly appreciated.

Rednote alternative to make new friends in China.

I wonder because there's obviously some barriers to using Reddit in mainland China. I know there are more overseas Chinese, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, etc here comparatively from any analytics I've seen & I'm also curious why you use this sub though because why not find out?

I am an international adoptee from China and my birth name was 崇福阳 (Chóng Fú Yáng). I know the individual charcaters and meanings (worship/good fortune/positivity).

Talking to some of the other girls I was adopted with, we all have the same first and second characters but different third characters.

We believe 崇 is part of the county name we were from. 崇阳县 (Chóngyáng county) in 湖北省 (Húběi province).

Apparently some Chinese orphanages used 福 (fú/good fortune) as part of the first/second character for the luck/blessing part. But sometimes to designate the child is from an orphanage since 儿童福利院 (Értóng fúlì yuàn/ Children's Welfare Institute) is another word for orphanage.

I was wondering if our name partially means "orphan from Chóngyáng county". I wanted to ask if my name sounds like a normal name and flows well or if it is noticably an orphan name.

I’m a local Chinese who’s spent a frankly ridiculous amount of time traveling around mainland China.

Over the years, I’ve flown roughly 700,000 km domestically, visited every province and almost every corner of the country, and spent a lot of time beyond the usual tourist routes.

I’m currently based between Shenzhen and Hangzhou, and my preferred way of traveling is fly to a region → rent a car → road-trip and explore deeply rather than simply checking off famous attractions.

That has meant everything from major cities and developed coastal areas to remote towns, countryside, mountains, border regions, and places that most domestic tourists don't necessarily visit either.

I thought it might be useful to offer an foreigners interested in China, especially if you're curious about things that are difficult to understand from guidebooks or short trips.

Just a Chinese person who's probably spent an unreasonable percentage of his life looking out of airplane and rental-car windows.

ask me anything about traveling or living in mainland China, and I'll answer from my own experience.

What do you guys think of Chinese food in America for those that have tried it?

Also, have any easy authentic recipes you could share to help illustrate how different real Chinese food is from what we eat in small town America?

I'd like to be able to try making some myself but would be fine with using my imagination. Thank you.

Hehehe..

Hey so- I’m white (could you guess..?). From the US (ugh, I know…). I have very strong and important memories associated with Chinese food and my father. We went to our favorite Chinese restaurant weekly, rain or shine, for years. Can I get a tattoo of a bowl of noodle soup or the classic take-out box/bag or does that make me a jerk? Yes I know the box/bag is an American thing, but I don’t know, whatever, just let me know if it’s racist.

Hi, I am an Indian and I live in Yiwu. The doubts I hear from my Chinese suppliers and Chinese people are really crazy. The questions are like is India safe as China? Is India really very dirty? Do lower caste people of India are very socially backward? Do Indian women really have to give dowry to the Indian men? Do Indian drink cow piss? I am not saying these statements are false, these statements are true but that doesn’t apply to whole of India( small percentage). Personally I really feel ashamed even though I am from the richest city of India (Mumbai) I still feel ashamed because after all am an Indian too. Second thing that comes to my brain is why do Chinese people don’t consider India is 1/3rd of China, has 10-15 religions, has 100’s of cultures, has 20000 languages, white black brown Asian looking middle eastern looking people and so on. The country is so diverse that even we Indians cannot judge other Indians well and cannot guess what kind of person he is. Sometimes we ourselves are shocked to know such different kind of people also exist in India. For example- in north east part of India they eat dogs bugs insects. Most of the India isn’t even aware of it. Coming from Mumbai I don’t encounter most of the stuff people generally hear or see about India on the internet. No one says it loud but whenever I face any Chinese person I already feel ashamed because I exactly know what he thinks of me even though what they hear about India is maybe a small percentage. But the image Chinese people create in their mind about India is whole.

I’ve been thinking about this lately.

When I was growing up, I had a pretty simple idea of what a good job was supposed to look like.

Good salary, stable company, decent position, and hopefully something you could keep doing for many years.

That’s still how a lot of our parents see it, I think.

But talking to people around my age, I feel like things are becoming a little different.

People still want more money, obviously. Nobody is going to say no to a raise.

But I hear people talking more about things like:

“How many hours am I actually going to work?”

“Will I have any time left after work?”

“Do I really want to spend the next 10 years doing this?”

Sometimes someone gets promoted and instead of saying “That’s great,” people ask, “Does that mean you have to work even more now?” 😂

And honestly, having a job where you can leave work on time almost sounds like a benefit now.

I don’t think this means young people in China don’t want to work hard anymore.

A lot of people I know are still working very hard and trying to make more money.

It just seems like more people are starting to think about what they’re giving up in exchange for it.

Maybe I’m just seeing a Chinese version of something that’s happening everywhere.

So I’m curious:

For people in your country, what makes a job a “good job” these days?

Is it still mostly salary, stability and career growth?

Or are things like free time, flexibility and having a life outside work becoming just as important?

And do your parents understand that way of thinking?