A bizarre trend has emerged in China: students are eating rice-paper snacks designed to look like textbooks and workbooks to cope with exam stress. The snacks sell for under 0.50 yuan each and are marketed as “stress reducers.”
At Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games, Chinese robots broke human records in sprinting and high jumping. The event shows China’s rapid progress in robotics and its growing tech competition with the U.S.
When famous Chinese comedian Guo Degang modified a single lyric of a classic patriotic song during a live performance in Wuhan, it ignited a major controversy. This HSK 5 level learning material explores the event.