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LYCEUM

To document and to live.

MOMENTS OF BEING

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

—- Virginia Woolf

What happened when people in China tried to replicate Emma Watson hiding free books on public transit?

December 9, 2016

Remember last month when Harry Potter star Emma Watson who, as a UN Goodwill Ambassador, started to leave free copies of Mom & Me & Mom at different locations on the London underground? Shortly after the news broke, this sort of book-on-metro practice has become a fad in China with campaigns of a similar fashion … More What happened when people in China tried to replicate Emma Watson hiding free books on public transit?

Alipay’s new feature turned itself into a hookup app: How could Alipay have been this stupid?

November 30, 2016

People downloading the Alipay app Alipay, one of China’s best-known digital payment apps owned by Ant Financial Services Group, the financial affiliate of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba, recently rolled out its social networking platform in an ambitious attempt to take on the country’s leading social app, WeChat. However, something went terribly wrong: the platform was … More Alipay’s new feature turned itself into a hookup app: How could Alipay have been this stupid?

[SOCIETY] Chinese Tiger Mom spends 20000RMB on first-grade’s extracurricular activities

November 30, 2016

“Everyone is moving forward, we can’t stand still,” Ms. Xie from Zhejiang, East China said. Like other “Tiger Mothers” who swear by the “never-lose-at-the-starting-line” theory, stay-at-home mom Ms. Xie spends about 20000RMB each semester on private tutorials and extracurricular classes for her seven-year-old son Chengcheng. The recent years in China have witnessed an incongruous course … More [SOCIETY] Chinese Tiger Mom spends 20000RMB on first-grade’s extracurricular activities