Hello, I am organising university exchange. My major is politics and I would like to study in China. I can read, listen and speak Chinese fine (hsk6-7), but cannot write a single character. Will Chinese universities that teach humanities subjects in Chinese have handwritten tasks or exams? If so its not a big deal as I can take english subjects, it's just that i'd rather use my Chinese at a tertiary level. Thanks.

It's very cheap (~3 chapters per yuan), the resolution is very high (except for a few exceptions where it's just good, but still better than scans), and as far as I know the translation is also good.   The app is not in western stores, so download it here: https://manga.bilibili.com/app-download   The app changes quite often, with new offers, deals, bundles, challenges and rewards. It can be a bit overwhelming, so I will explain the main concepts. Let's say you managed to create an account and open a manga chapter, now comes the dreaded moment of payment. Look at this image, I can pay 49漫币 or 1漫读券 for this chapter. The coins 漫币 and blue tickets 漫读券 are the main currency. Currently you can buy 5000漫币 + 50漫读券 for 50 yuan, so basically 150 chapters for 50 yuan. The golden tickets 畅读卡 have the same value as the blue tickets (1 chapter per ticket), but they are suscription based. If I remember correctly the most basic suscription plan gets you 40 tickets/month for 15 yuan/month. Here are the available payment methods:   WHAT MANGA IS AVAILABLE?   You can go to the website and look around: https://manga.bilibili.com/ The shonen selection is very good (all the usual suspects including doraemon, fma, dragon ball, one piece, mob psycho...). The seinen selection is thinner but decent (jojo, vinland saga, golden kamuy, mushishi, gunnm, land of the lustrous...). I don't know about other demographics.   What about Chinese manhua? The only ones I've bought (but haven't read yet) are 镖人 and 乌龙院. I am sure there are other good ones, but it's hard to find them among all the crap for horny teenagers.   DOWNLOADING THE MANGA   There are many reasons why one would want to download the manga rather than reading in the app, I personnally do it because I prefer to read in my ereader. You need to download and install the Hakuneko program in your computer from here: https://github.com/manga-download/hakuneko?tab=readme-ov-file#download This program is used for piracy, but here we will be downloading the manga we purchased, so it's ok?   - Setup Hakuneko (only needs to be done once) Open Hakuneko > click on bookmarks > click on the Bilibili Manhua arrow (see image) > A browser window will open, you simply need to log in inside that window, and then close everything - Download from Hakuneko You can simply search for the manga you want, but here is an easier way: Open your browser, find and copy the link of the manga you want (e.g. Chainsaw Man https://manga.bilibili.com/detail/mc28376) > Open Hakuneko > Click on the clipboard icon in Hakuneko (see image) > Click on the chapters you want to download The first few chapters of every manga are free, so you can download them from Hakuneko to try them out without even installing the Bilibili app.   Manga was the first native content I was able to read, and I still read it because it's very fun, so hopefully this will help others!

I think the first two symbols combined means "lucky", but I would like confirmation, thank you very much and greetings from Spain.  

What is written on a fan? Need translation in English.    

My listening skills are pretty bad, so could someone tell me whether the language the two ladies are speaking here https://youtu.be/NojlI9LhtOY?si=C180Rulnvr9wwWHb&t=288 is Mandarin? I believe the scene is supposed to take place in Taiwan, that's why I suspect Hokkien.   Thanks!

My Astrill experience has been anything but stable these past few months, and as my subscription is finish at the end of week, is there an alternative? On my phone I often have to try half a dozen servers before I get a connection stable enough to open Google/Youtube. And let's not even mention trying to get a connection stable enough to call through Whatsapp. Any suggestions as to Astrill alternatives?

Hello! To all the people living in Shanghai:  We need your help! We will be in Shanghai during May 1st holiday. We are interested in buying dictionaries and HSK materials; can you please indicate what bookshops are worth going? The areas we will visit are: Tianzifang, Xintiandi, Century Park. Last year we went in Fuzhou Road, but bookshops were closed … Thank you!

I'm trying to learn Chinese and learn how to play a musical instrument at the same time.  I thought I'd do it by playing Chinese melodies that caught my attention when going through some playlists from my families in Asia   The song  換到千般恨  caught my attention, so I took a few months to compose a guitar version of it.  This was the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-f_7RswrkY Hope some of you enjoy it!

For the last couple of months, I'm not receiving sms /text messages from overseas. This is especially annoying as sometimes I need sms log in codes. Anyone else in China experience this or any ideas how to solve it?

Hey everyone   I don't know any Chinese , and I'm not confident if I'm searching things correctly on google, or if Google translate is translating correctly, or if chatgpt is even correct,   But for this song here: https://youtu.be/5SdN03jYZ8E?si=rrLGemZhVQQgBKQ7   I'm having a hard time figuring out: 1. The exact name of the song 2. What year the original song was written 3. Name of the original author   When I asked chatgpt, it said the song was called "茉莉花".  But when I asked chatgpt if there is such a song called 帝女花, chatgpt says such a song does not exist.  Wikipedia says 帝女花 is a play.   Does anyone know the answer to questions 1, 2 and 3?