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  Low-income Chinese girl aces gaokao, inspires live-streamers offering financial help

  South China Morning Post  - Fran Lu

  A girl from a disadvantaged rural family in central China topped this year’s gaokao, attracting numerous live-streamers eager to finance her …

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  In a hit low-budget film, Beijing sees a way to court Chinese communities abroad

  The Washington Post - Rudy Lu

  “Dear You,” a Teochew-language family drama and migration story, has raised fraught questions of identity in the Chinese diaspora. A low-budget Chinese family drama and migration story, performed in a language most viewers in China can barely understand, has become the country’s surprise box office …

• The Californication of middle-class Chinese diets
  https://economist.com/china/2026/06/14/the-californication-of-middle-class-chinese-diets
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  The Californication of middle-class Chinese diets

  The Economist

  DAI JIANJUN, an organic restaurateur in the eastern city of Hangzhou, was ahead of his time. For more than 20 years his buyers have obsessively …

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  China detains two leaders of influential underground church

  BBC News - Kelly Ng

  An influential Protestant church in China has said two of its leaders were detained after more than dozens of congregants, including children, were rounded up for interrogation. They were midway through Sunday service in the south-western city of Jiangyou, when armed police officers stormed the room …

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  China Man Accused of Killing Adopted Dogs Sparks Online Outcry

  Bloomberg - By Nectar Gan

  Police in China have detained a man accused of abusing and killing adopted dogs after the case triggered an online outcry and a running protest. The …

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  Robot in Clown Wig Roundhouse Kicks Small Child

  futurism.com - Victor Tangermann

  They may have come down in price substantially, but humanoid robots are far from hitting shelves at your local Toys-R-Us. And for good reason, as a …