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Lily’s dish- The First Beijing Black Puffer Beauty Pageant Took Beijing by Storm. Now Everyone Wants the Runner-Up‘s Jacket(北京黑羽绒服选美大赛爆火，全网都在找亚军要链接) By 新周刊 In late January, a crowd gathered in a bar in Beijing for an event called “the First Beijing Black Down Jacket Beauty Pageant”. No corporate sponsors, no celebrity judges, just dozens of people who showed up to celebrate a piece of clothing that has, in recent winters, become something of an unofficial uniform in the Chinese capital: the...

Biyi’s Dish — 20 Years On: Why Are We Still Obsessed with the Bossy Boss/Alpha CEO? (20年了，为什么我们还在痴迷霸总?) By Tencent Entertainment(腾讯娱乐) The Bossy Boss/Alpha CEO (霸总) — that iconic character defined by wealth, dominance, and controlling charm — has been one of the most enduring archetypes in Chinese entertainment for the past two decades. For many women in mainland China, their first encounter with this type of male lead was through the Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden . Its protagonist, Dao Ming...

Kat, reporting from Hong Kong — On the afternoon of November 26, I suddenly received messages from friends: “There seems to be a fire in Tai Po.” “It looks serious—the smoke is already rising above the rooftops.” At first, none of us imagined that the fire would spread so rapidly, or spiral so completely out of control. As more and more videos circulated on social media, many people from the mainland China began paying attention to Tai Po—normally a quiet seaside corner far removed from Hong...