Author name: Manuel Recchia

I'm a fan of the Chinese language, books, and editorial tradition. I love to write and travel anywhere and in any way, but Asia has the priority. You can find me on Linkedin!

How to Get a Virtual Chinese Phone Number to Receive Text Messages

Getting a Chinese phone number when you arrive in China is one of the first things to figure out for anyone wanting to avoid annoying problems and wasting time with many apps and digital payments. But having a Chinese phone number to get text messages could also be useful outside of China. For this reason, …

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How to Take the Metro in China: The Complete Guide

Taking the metro in China – Index What to expect a inside a Chinese metro station Cards, tickets and prices Useful applications Survival advice Metros in the biggest Chinese cities There are many ways to unravel yourself from the vastness of Chinese cities: taxis, didis, buses, bikes, on foot, by train. One of the most …

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Paying by smartphone in China: The Guide for Wechat and Alipay

Paying by smartphone in China – Index WeChat Pay and Alipay: what are they? Initial settings How to make payments with Wechat How to make payments with Alipay Receiving and sending money with WeChat Receiving and sending money with Alipay Sending red envelopes (hongbao 红包) with WeChat Sending red envelopes (hongbao 红包) with Alipay Can …

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Vacationing in China: The Complete Guide to Chinese Holidays

Vacations are the most eagerly awaited time of year for all, during which we can finally relax or change scenery even for just a few days. The first question we ask ourselves though is always the same: where should we go? In recent years China has become a growingly popular tourist destination not just for …

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Traveling to the Autonomous County of Tujia and Miao of Youyang, near Chongqing

Located to the southeast of the Municipality of Chongqing, the most extensive and populated of the four Chinese municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), the autonomous county of Tujia and Miao of Youyang (酉阳土家族苗族自治县) is the largest county of the Municipality. Called Youzhou in ancient times, Youyang represents a real cultural cradle for the 18 …

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Pleco: Review of the English/Chinese Dictionary for iOS and Android Smartphones

Learning Chinese has become an increasingly common objective not just for future Sinologists and experts but also for neophytes in the world of business where it has become continuously more important. There are in fact an infinite amount of resources for how to best learn this language and facilitate learning for the user in this …

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The Writer Cao Wenxuan: His Life and Most Important Works

His life Cao Wenxuan, 曹文轩, one of the most-read Chinese children literature authors in China and among the most widely translated in the world, was born in the village of Longgang 龙港村 near the town of Yancheng 盐城, in Jiangsu Province, 江苏, in 1954. The family’s economic situation wasn’t the greatest, but that didn’t stop …

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