Chinamaxxing may have peaked, but its impact is lasting longer than anyone expected.

A $1,000 mahjong set. A custom carrying case. A lifestyle brand built around tiles that have existed for centuries. Mahjong is having a moment, but depending on where you`re standing, it looks very different.

When a game with a specific cultural history gets rebranded as a vibe: is this cultural exchange, or something else entirely?

Image via @riichi.indonesia and RedNote

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Nobody is rewatching Taiwanese idol drama for the acting.

But millions of people are rewatching them anyway, and the comment sections are full of people feeling nostalgic. The easy read is the aesthetic. The gauzy filters, the rain-soaked confessions, the chunky highlights and flip phones and early-2000s Taipei light. 古早味(Gǔ Zǎo Weì): meaning "old-fashioned flavor" in Hokkien — has become the word for exactly this feeling.

What made Taiwanese idol drama distinct was its sincerity. Love treated like the only thing that mattered. It`s everything current dating culture has trained us to suppress, and we keep going back to it at 2am when no one`s watching.

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In 2017, @yadongsong left China to train full-time at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento. He fought his way through the UFC bantamweight division almost entirely on American soil.

On May 30, he returns to Asia for the first time since a 2018 undercard win in Beijing. And this time, UFC Fight Night: Macau is named after him.

We did a series about him 4 years ago, and are proud of seeing him grow these years. This time he is fighting against Deiveson Figueiredo at @galaxymacau .

Now he’s back.

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5 Hong Kong indie music artists: the ones that quietly shaped everything and never got enough credit for it.

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If you’ve ever watched the League of Legends World Championship, you know the visual: pros hunched at desks, mechanical keyboards, full peripheral rigs, sponsored gaming chairs... Now swap all of that for a phone. That‘s the King Pro League (KPL) Spring Finals — the championship round for Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), Tencent’s mobile 5v5 tournament, organized by Hero Esports, and arguably China‘s biggest esports events.

Honor of Kings runs like a daily ritual for Chinese youth: open the app after dinner, find your duo, and screenshot the win to the group chat. Friend hangouts, date nights, post-work decompression — all played out on a 6-inch screen. Recently, that ritual got its championship moment: Team KSG swept Chongqing Wolves 4-0 at a sold-out Wuyuanhe Sports Center in Haikou, with Liulang (张恒) walking off with FMVP.

So when the country’s biggest mobile hit goes into esports, the crowd shows up. Outside China, mobile esports is the warm-up act. In China, it‘s the headliner.

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