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Did This Chinese Man Have Sex With an Alien?

There's strange, and then there's this story...

by Matthew Bossons, 07 June 2023

This Day in History: Mysterious Fireballs Flatten Guizhou Forest

The circumstances surrounding this story have captured the imaginations of UFO investigators across the Middle Kingdom and beyond.

by Matthew Bossons, 30 November 2021

This Day in History: China's Otherworldly 'Alien Sky Spiral' of 1981

A giant spiral in the sky, a spiral allegedly seen by 10 million people in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

by Matthew Bossons, 23 July 2021

The Haunting of Beijing's Metro Line 1

Beijing's Metro Line 1 has a mysterious and eerie past...

by Matthew Bossons, 22 October 2020

7 Spooky Chinese Urban Legends

​With October being the scariest month of the year, it seems as good a time as any to dive into the Middle Kingdom’s eeriest folklore.

by That's PRD, 29 October 2019

The Story of Beijing's Legendary Ghost Bus

The scariest part of this story is that all of us, at some point, have ridden the last bus.

by Matthew Bossons, 12 April 2016

Meet 5 of China's Strangest Cryptids

You may be familiar with the bigfoot and Loch Ness monster, but what about China's assortment of mysterious creatures?

by Matthew Bossons, 11 October 2015

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Thanks for the overview of the new HSK standards. It gave me a much better picture of the changes in the exam. I've also found vocabulary lists for the new HSK levels: https://www.hackchinese.com/exams/New%20HSK%203. It looks like a good resource for HSK test preparation.

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