Category: China
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The foreigner’s guide to phone (WeChat + AliPay) payments in China
[Construction notice: I’m rewriting this article to reflect the (bad) situation for foreigners using WeChat, and the (amazingly good) situation for foreigners using AliPay. I hope that the rewrite will be done by soon, but covid-19 has made my schedule even more unpredictable than before. My apologies for the verbal dust that’ll be around until…
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Want to learn Chinese?
I run a side project that has nothing to do with computers or programming: Every Monday, I publish “Mandarin Weekly,” a curated collection of links and resources for people learning Chinese. I’ve been studying Chinese for nearly two years now, and it is one of the most interesting and fun (and challenging!) things I’ve ever…