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A first-person experiment: thirty days in China without touching a single banknote. What it felt like to pay with a phone for everything — and where ...
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When an Australian backpacker arrives in a tiny Yunnan village, she expects rustic simplicity—not QR codes, digital payments, and a B&B owner who uses WeChat Pay ...
Forget the old rule of fighting to pay. Today’s Chinese youth prefer digital AA splitting. Here is how WeChat and Alipay make bill-sharing smooth, polite, and ...
How does life look when cash disappears from your pockets? From morning breakfast to evening subway rides, follow Li Wei, a Shenzhen resident, through a day ...