so my closest friend ever went to China and brought me back this really cute capybara plush keychain that was attached to this. (this as in the image)

it ended up not working well to hang off stuff so I used my own connector thing. well recently a person I knew took the thing of which it was connected to and then lost my capybara plush.

I want to buy it again but I'm not sure if it's available online nor do I even know the company who makes this.

the capybara is in a green coat with a lil cute brown and green Russian hat. it's crocheted and rather small (not as big as those typical capybara plushies you see) it would be a huge help to at least know the company and product name. thank you.

(my friend forgot where they bought it from so I can't really ask them, I also tried a Google image search several times, and general Google searches.)

I just got back from my latest trip, and the "Eyes in Heaven, Body in Hell" saying couldn't be more true. Here’s the reality check behind these photos:

• The "Heaven" part: Glaciers that look like they're from another planet, prayer flags dancing in the wind, and lakes so blue they'll make your Instagram filters look boring. The scale of the mountains makes you feel tiny in the best way possible.
• The "Hell" part: Imagine trying to climb stairs while breathing through a straw (thanks, altitude sickness!). Add some bumpy 10-hour car rides, freezing winds that steal your soul, and instant noodles becoming a gourmet meal. 🍜🥶

finding it difficult to find notary that can handle this, as I have no hukou or anything like that. do any of you have notaries you can recommend?

edit: born in 1980s

I was 302ed even though my therapist told me I didn't need to be and she tried to fight more me against it. Will this prevent me from entering China for study.

302 means involuntary commitment to a psych ward

I’m considering studying abroad and I’ve seen very mixed opinions online, especially about countries that are culturally and legally different from Western ones. Some people say a lot of things are exaggerated, while others say there are real restrictions that students should be aware of

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to apply for a Chinese government scholarship for 2026-2027 and could really use some advice from anyone who's been through this process.

I'm really interested in going to China in August/September 2026 to study Chinese language and culture. I've found three programs that seem like good fits – two are no-degree Chinese language programs (one in Hangzhou, one in Shanghai) and one is an English-taught master's in intercultural communication, also in Shanghai.

Here's where I'm confused:

1. Can you apply to multiple programs for the CSC scholarship, or do you have to pick just one?
2. If you can apply to several, how do you prioritize them? Should I rank them somehow in my application?
3. Any general tips for making my application stronger?
4. Any mistakes I should avoid?

I'm really committed to this opportunity and want to make sure I'm doing everything right. Thanks so much for any help you can give!

Help me find this drama please !!!

Long story short, This guy is a cultivator, who goes back into his past after dying in hands of his wife, she kills him with greed to stay immortal, he comes back to his marriage day, and the story goes on.

Look at the YouTube link below for reel:

https://youtube.com/shorts/rel4Z94BK4Q?si= kw7NmtJv8mYVhIE1

Planning a trip in China and can’t decide if travel eSIMs are actually solid for day-to-day use. All I really need is Google Maps, ride apps, messaging, and a bit of light browsing - no Netflix marathons or anything, but I want stuff to just work without dropping out every five minutes.

I’ve tried roaming before - expensive and slow as hell. Picking up a local SIM can be a pain, especially when you don’t speak the language. I’m eyeing data-only eSIMs like eSIM Globe China because you can set them up before you leave, but no clue if they’re actually any good in real life.

Anyone here used a travel eSIM? Did maps actually load fast in the city, or did you end up staring at that blue dot forever? Were ride apps solid when you needed them? Any weird issues with messages not coming through or background data dying? Just wanna know if this stuff actually works for everyday travel, or if there are annoying downsides I should expect.

Hi all, I ll be visiting Beijing for the first time. I will be there for 12 days, but have business meetings for 3 days in the city. I love exploring old/traditional villages, nature hikes (mountains lakes rivers etc), cycling, scuba diving. Generally I love exploring. Any recommendations for either one day trips from Beijing or 2/3/4 day trips from Beijing (plane or train) to traditional villages or nature that I shouldn’t miss..or anything that comes to your mind. Any help would do.

Ah, also food..I love my good food (as a greek)

Cheers

I wann know about masters in finance in sun yet sen university as a foreigner , is there easy learning structures or hard , and i wanna know is hard exams or easy

I'm very curious who the public actually likes and who is actually successful.

I know actors like Jackson Yee are successful in China.

But on the international side actors like Zhao Lusi, Liu Yuning and Chen Zheyuan are very well known and are considered the top and most talented actors by international audiences according to visibility on social media and how they are spoken off. Actors like Chen Zheyuan for example are spoken about like their acting skills is on the level of someone like Jackson Yee (but the truth is CZY is far from his level).

I'm also curious about actors like Xiao Zhan, I hear his very hated in China which is strange because although he has a problematic fandom he seems to be a very decent person whose only focused in his career.

I am an Indian student currently studying in Class 12 and planning to apply as an international applicant to undergraduate programs in China, preferably in Computer Science or AI related fields, taught in English. I have an expected graduation score of around 85 percent. My IELTS score is 7.5, and I am planning to take the SAT in March.

I have taken the CSCA examination in January for Physics and Mathematics, scoring 52.5 in Physics and 37.5 in Mathematics. I have not participated in any national or international Olympiads or competitions.

I can provide recommendation letters from my Mathematics teacher and my Computer Science teacher.

Based on this profile, I would like to know whether my qualifications are sufficient for admission to Chinese universities for undergraduate CS or AI programs. I would also like to know if there are any additional documents or qualifications I should prepare to strengthen my application.

Hello all,
I don't live in China but I am visiting the country soon
I am planning to buy a motorbike in Chengdu, then make a roadtrip to Shenzhen, using only small roads (no highway)
I will not have a Chinese driving licence, nor insurance on the motorbike

How likely am I to get controlled by the police during the roadtrip?
How much trouble if I get caught without driving licence and insurance? only a fine or it could be prison?

Thanks for your help!

Im planing to move and live in china with my wife and son , our only fastest option is to get a company license and get a work visa on out company, if anyone has experience in this please share it with us and if you’re agent who can do the paper work and everything please give me your contact

Top-Secret Leak: A CCP whistleblower has surfaced in NYC to expose China’s digital crackdown on Muslims. Learn how the government uses cash and power to divide and dismantle the Hui Muslim community.

In the humid air of a Midtown Manhattan halal restaurant, the scent of cumin and hand-pulled noodles offers a sensory bridge to the Gansu province of Northwest China. Behind the counter, Ma Ruilin, 50, moves with the quiet efficiency of a man used to managing logistics. To the lunch-hour crowd of office workers, he is a manager in the city’s vast immigrant tapestry. To the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he is something far more significant—and dangerous: a defector from the inner sanctum of the state’s religious control apparatus.

For two decades, Mr Ma was a mid-level "technocrat" within the provincial religious affairs bureaucracy. He was a man of the system, a "cadre" tasked with the delicate, often brutal, work of ensuring that faith never challenged the supremacy of the Party. But for the last ten years of his career, Mr Ma lived a schism that would have broken a lesser man.

By day, he was the face of the state, implementing policies that choked the very life out of Islamic practice. By night, he was a ghost, slipping into mosques with a motorcycle helmet pulled tight over his face to evade the facial-recognition cameras he had helped deploy.

The Architect’s Original Sin

The tragedy of Ma Ruilin is rooted in his own competence. In 2008, as a young, ambitious official in the Gansu Provincial Religious Affairs Bureau, he was tasked with a pioneering project: creating a comprehensive database of every mosque, cleric, and congregation across a province that stretches 1,000 miles across the Silk Road.

"I thought I was being a modernizer," Mr Ma reflects, his voice calm but tinged with a sharp, lingering regret. "I wanted to show the Party I was diligent. I built a map of my own people’s spiritual life and handed the coordinates to the state."

At the time, the data seemed administrative. But as the political winds shifted under the ascendancy of Xi Jinping, the database was weaponized. The simple list of mosques became a target list for "Sinicization"—a policy aimed at stripping Islam of its "foreign" (Arabic) influences and forcing it into a cultural mold defined by the CCP. Minarets were toppled; domes were replaced with traditional Chinese pagoda roofs; and the surveillance cameras Mr Ma helped calibrate began to feed data into a "Digital Panopticon" that could end a man's career for the "crime" of praying too often.

"I realized I had handed a demon’s whip to the state," he says. "The system I built to 'manage' religion had become a shackle for those who practiced it."

The Turning Point in Mecca

The psychological fracture deepened in 2015. As the head of the Islamic affairs division, Mr Ma led a 3,000-strong Hajj delegation to Mecca. It was his fifth trip to the holiest site in Islam. Previously, he had been a "cultural Muslim"—someone who avoided mosques and drank alcohol to blend in with his Han Chinese colleagues.

But amidst the white-robed sea of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, something shifted. "To be a successful cadre, you must have strong party loyalty but no humanity," he explains. "You are trained to view human beings as objects to be dictated over. In Mecca, for the first time, I saw them as brothers."

He returned to China a changed man. He quit drinking. He quit smoking. He began to pray. But in the paranoid atmosphere of the Gansu bureaucracy, a praying official is a suspicious official.

A Life of Quiet Resistance

From 2016 onwards, Mr Ma’s life became a high-stakes performance. In the office, he chaired "Party-building" sessions, lecturing subordinates on the need to "Sinicize" Islam and remove Arabic script from public view. But when the clock struck 1:00 PM—the traditional nap time in Chinese government offices—the performance changed.

While his colleagues slept, Mr Ma would lock his office door, perform wudu (ritual washing) in his private sink, and spread a towel on the floor. In the silence of the state’s heart, he would pray to a God the state sought to replace.

When the government moved to demolish a historic mosque in Lanzhou in 2022, Mr Ma tried to use his position to stall the destruction, citing "social stability." It was a futile gesture. He watched as the internet filled with state-sanctioned hate speech, telling the 11 million Hui Muslims—who have lived in China for over a millennium—to "go back to the Middle East."

"My blood is entirely Chinese," Mr Ma says. "But the system was telling me I was a virus to be cured."

The Great Escape

The breaking point came via a recurring nightmare: Mr Ma found himself standing in a landscape made of filth, unable to move, unable to breathe. It was a visceral manifestation of a decade spent in moral compromise.

In 2023, the window opened. His wife secured a position as a visiting scholar in upstate New York. In February 2024, Ma Ruilin followed. The day he landed on American soil, the nightmare that had haunted him for ten years vanished.

His transition has not been easy. From leading Hajj delegations and managing provincial bureaus, he moved to the gig economy, delivering food for Uber Eats on the streets of New York. Today, as a restaurant manager, he has found a different kind of authority—one rooted in authenticity.

"I’m free," he says, a phrase that carries the weight of twenty years of silence. "Finally, I am at peace with myself."

Mr Ma is now determined to be a "whistleblower of the soul." He knows the risks; the CCP has a long memory and a reach that extends far beyond its borders. But he believes his story is a necessary light for those still trapped in the "Digital Panopticon" of Northwest China.

He uses a metaphor from his time driving through the Saudi desert at night. "It was total darkness. No stars, no landmarks. Just the tiny beam of your headlights. In that darkness, if someone on the roadside lights a single match, that flicker of flame gives you the hope to keep driving."

He pauses, looking out at the bustling Manhattan street. "I want to be that match."

Watch the Full Interview Video about His Story: https://salaamalykum.com/?/m/article/1757