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Beatrice Tamagno

Chicken soup for the soul: the weird universe of Tiktok wisdom

Self-help content with Chinese characteristics is the latest Douyin craze: why are Chinese users craving “Chicken Soup for the Soul”?

Amarsanaa Battulga

Do religious ghosts dream of supernatural time travel?

Horror-themed escape rooms have been all the rage in China for a while, but there is simply no room for such superstition in Chinese cinemas

Will Vagari

Christian beliefs for modern Chinese minds: how come is this imported religion thriving?

Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in China. Why is this dogma resonating with Chinese people?

Caterina Paiva

Mao keeping track of the God of Fortune, or how Mao Zedong's iconography made space into fortune

Mao’s iconography might be the most used image to represent the PRC. But what about PRC’s fortune 运?

Caterina Paiva

Artificial “fortune-telling” intelligence and how to never underestimate religious pragmatism

Our Editorial team went to Zhujiajiao 朱家角. Imagine how surprised we were when we found an AI fortune-telling machine?

Beatrice Tamagno

Editorial - Superstition in the air: belief under the Chinese sky

“One person’s religion is another person’s superstition,” wrote Gibson. What does superstition mean in the Chinese context then?