These mahjong tiles are the new way china`s youth express themselves.

Meet Word Mahjong (文字麻将) by White Blindness Studio (白色失明): exactly the same rules, except every tile is a Chinese character, and you win by drawing a full sentence. Ideally one unhinged enough to make the whole table laugh.

It`s like Cards Against Humanity got a Chinese localization.

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Some conditions don`t show up on a medical chart. The Chinese internet found them anyway.

RADII`s July buzzwords call them out. This month`s four: 老登, taste that stopped updating. 脆皮, bodies that break from a sneeze. 内耗, exhaustion with nothing to show for it. And 外耗, the ultimate cure: say the annoying thing, let someone else carry it.

Find your diagnosis, and follow @radii_media for more Chinese internet slang like this!

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We all know the feeling when a venue shuts down. You don’t just lose a space, you lose the corner where you always found your friend, the DJs, the community, the version of yourself that only existed on that floor.

On @elevatorshanghai ‘s final night, someone left the dance floor soaked in sweat. Someone stood outside, filming the door one last time. WHEN THE FLOOR GOES DARK, directed by Yihong Exa Huang (@d1g1h1h ) in association with The Face China(@thefacemagchina ), captures the last breath of the venue, and with it, an entire era of club closures across China.

Between lockdowns and a business model that was always fragile, China’s clubs have long struggled to make the math work. But the story of China‘s dance floors isn’t ending the way you think. A new generation of spaces is already emerging: from club clusters to crews going nomadic, to collectives joining forces on pop-up raves. China’s electronic music scene has always known how to adapt: to the city, to the rules, to whatever comes next.

Just like the title says: WHEN THE FLOOR GOES DARK, there‘s always a sunrise after.

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