Nine-year-old Zhang Chen charges into the battlefield, carrying a laser gun almost as tall as him. His mission is to locate a bomb placed by terrorists, and defuse it.
Role-playing live games, or Alternative Reality Games (ARG), appeared years ago in Europe and the United States. It takes the substance of everyday life and weaves it into narratives that give it additional meaning, depth and interaction. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, everyone in the country can access these narratives through every available medium - at home, in the office, on the phones; in words, in images or in sound.
Our campus neighborhood boasts several dried-up ponds and a century ago they were quite a sight. Our university has no plans to restore the scenery, so our senior neighbors are practicing agricultural skills there.
The handmade signs in the shapes of apples and hearts bobbed above the heads of the beaming grade school children lining the driveway of Qi Yi primary school, in Beijing's Haidian District.
After five years of cordial nodding and smiling, the downstairs couple in our apartment block invited us to their brightly lit sitting room one recent evening. Before that, we had only talked about two topics: the possible leaking problem in our bathroom, and the part-time cleaners we both hire.
Making friends on campus seems to be mission impossible for many university students in Beijing. "College life is so different from what I expected in terms of making an intimate friend," says Zhang Yan, a sophomore at China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU).
Believe it or not, most of my married Chinese friends admit that the happiest moments on their wedding days are neither putting on a magnificent wedding gown, nor giving a passionate kiss to the bridegroom in front of hundreds of guests. It is about counting cash gifts on their wedding bed!
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