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[Milfotronic]

Last time I was in mainland China was back in 2011. They were cracking down on prostitution everywhere and it was very hard to find girls. I went to some massage parlors and they were very strict about NO SEX. They only offered he. One late night in Hong Kong I picked up a hooker in Kowloon. She took me to her room but it soon turned out she had mental issues. The sex was worthless and I couldn't wait to get out of there. I had previously had some mixed experiences of HK and Macau. The girls charge a lot but the sex is seldom good. I can only remember two girls in Macau that satisfied me, both from the mainland of course.

How is the situation now?

[RobSH]

Hey guys,

I'm currently working in Philippines and I'm really craving some fair skinned slim Asian hotties that will come to my hotel room or be easily accessible from the street / mummies. I have no interest in going to KTVS or scrolling through bars for hours on end trying to chat up girls.

I've been scrolling backpage and was originally going to go to Korea but was told China is a better option for what I'm looking for. My budget is between $200-500 per girl and this will only be a few days. I don't speak any mandarin.

What area would you guys recommend I stay? I've read the past few pages but haven't really found much information or if I have read what I'm after it hasn't sunk in because China is so big and I think I'm just flat out confused.

Apologies if you get this kind of question all the time but I have submitted some reports in the past so I hope someone will humour me and help me out.

Thanks.

I'd say stay in the Philippines! There are light skinned girls there who will do more for less and without the language barrier.

[LOLWTFBBGirl]

Hey guys,

I'm currently working in Philippines and I'm really craving some fair skinned slim Asian hotties that will come to my hotel room or be easily accessible from the street / mummies. I have no interest in going to KTVS or scrolling through bars for hours on end trying to chat up girls.

I've been scrolling backpage and was originally going to go to Korea but was told China is a better option for what I'm looking for. My budget is between $200-500 per girl and this will only be a few days. I don't speak any mandarin.

What area would you guys recommend I stay? I've read the past few pages but haven't really found much information or if I have read what I'm after it hasn't sunk in because China is so big and I think I'm just flat out confused.

Apologies if you get this kind of question all the time but I have submitted some reports in the past so I hope someone will humour me and help me out.

Thanks.

[RobSH]

I have many times suggested that to display the Hanzi characters, one needs to put a space between, or to enclose in bold or italic (few seem to read or follow this advice to help other members).

However, to convert the posts of others to the correct Chinese characters, this is also simple albeit a bit time consuming. The process is shown below using the previous example.

1. Complete the numeric HTML Unicode by adding &# at the beginning of each number (and leaving the semicolon at the end of each number).

2. Use a Unicode to Chinese conversion tool to get the correct Chinese characters from the Unicode version and append to the first (correctly shown) character.

GM = 干摩
XT = 胸推
SM = 水摩

3. Then retranslate the complete expression to English.

GM = 干摩 = gn m = fuck (vulgar) massage
or, gān m = dry massage (without oil)
XT = 胸推 = xiōng tuī = chest push (massage with tits)
SM = 水摩 = shuǐ m = water massage

I generally use the Chinese-Tools dot com website to do the conversion. There are many others.

Anybody know any faster solutions?

Ikks.

Sure, but the point of my post wasn't to give the Chinese characters, but the meanings of the acronyms.

[Intransit]

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/100026...h-virginity%3F

Why Is China Still Obsessed With Virginity?

Shifting sexual mores mean young women are shamed both for having too much sexual experience and too little.

Huang Yimin

May 26,2017

SHANGHAI In a recent episode of the popular Chinese TV series "Ode to Joy," which began its second season this month, Qiu Yingying, one of the show's five young female protagonists living in Shanghai, gets dumped by her boyfriend after he finds out that she is not a virgin. His mother even says that Qiu must not respect her own body.

Even in 2017, a preference among heterosexual men for female virgins or chun qingjie, "the virgin complex" persists in China. But there are signs that the trend is reversing. In some quarters, one set of social pressures is giving way to another, as young people are shamed both for having too much sexual experience and too little.

University student Mary Yang, 23, has encountered both perspectives. When she was still in high school, she remembers adult men openly voicing their preferences for virgins in relationships. "They made me feel disgusted and objectified," she tells Sixth Tone.

But when Yang entered college, her more sexually liberal peers ridiculed her for being a virgin. Her university friends shared their myriad sexual experiences during games like Truth or Dare, but when it was Yang's turn, she confessed, uncomfortably, that she had no stories to share.

Yang's own view is that she wants to have some sexual experience before marriage so she can find "a more sexually compatible partner" later down the road. Yet while this is a fairly common attitude among young people in China, the larger society still believes women should remain virgins until marriage an expectation that is rarely applied to men.

Since sex is an act between two or more people, the fact that there is an overwhelming preference for female virgins among heterosexual men points to a glaring double standard.

Liu, a 20-year-old college student who, like many others Sixth Tone spoke to for this story, declined to give his full name, says most of his male classmates at a high school in Nanjing held a view that he recognized as unfair: Though they would date women who had sexual histories, when it came to marriage, they preferred virgins.

The issue of the virgin complex has sparked heated discussion in Chinese online forums. A post about the "Ode to Joy" plot on Zhihu, a Quora-like question-and-answer forum, received a wide spectrum of responses. While most female respondents disapproved of Qiu's boyfriend's behavior, many male commentators were less critical of his attitude, seeing it as a matter of personal preference rather than a product of chauvinism.

"A preference for virgins is just a preference like anything else," one male user called Betray wrote. "Some people prefer raw dates, while others prefer them cooked. " he added, however, that it was important to make one's feelings known before beginning a serious relationship because "spitting out the date after eating it" was irresponsible. Another user called Lin Bai wrote that he would not judge other men's preferences, just as he would not judge "women who go after limping old men for money. ".

As in the case of the boyfriend's mother in the television plot, older women are often guilty of championing the importance of female chastity. Earlier this month, Ding Xuan, a 63-year-old female expert on traditional culture, gave a lecture at Jiujiang University, in the eastern province of Jiangxi, during which she claimed that "chastity is a woman's best asset," and that "being a virgin is the best gift for a husband. " She was widely criticized after her lecture slides were shared on microblogging platform Weibo, with many saying she represented "feudal China" and challenging her to apply equivalent standards to men.

Longtime women's rights advocate Feng Yuan explains that the virgin complex has historical origins in patriarchal family structures. Lineage was crucial, and there were no DNA tests to prove paternity, so marrying a virgin was one way for men to safeguard their genetic lines. "This 'blood is thicker than water' notion was etched in the Chinese mindset, and it still influences some people's views today," she says.

"In the patriarchal society, women were trophies to reflect male success and achievement," Feng argues. The thinking was that virgins could belong to their men entirely, because they had never been 'possessed' by another man before. As a woman's own sexual pleasure was not considered important, given her duty to bear children, it was thought improper for a woman to have sex before marriage.

Since the birth of modern China, Feng believes the nation has never fully resolved the tensions between traditional and progressive values when it comes to sexuality. "On the one hand, 'New China' advocated for gender equality, banned prostitution, and improved marriage laws," she says. "On the other hand, it increased government surveillance in every aspect of life, blurring the lines between public and private. This resulted in people seeing sex as a humiliating act, and premarital sex as immoral. ".

But for younger generations, especially those born in the 1990's and later, diverse attitudes are apparent. While the virgin complex continues to direct the dating standards of some, others say they have been shamed by their peers for remaining virgins.

Xia, a 23-year-old college student, says that though mainstream media portrays virginity in a largely positive light as a form of purity, among his peers, virginity is seen as a bad thing for both genders. His friends jokingly label virgins as "the leftovers. ".

Teresa, 21, recalls that when she was in high school, it seemed that "every guy had the virgin complex, and every girl wanted to remain a virgin until marriage. " But things seem to have shifted since then, she adds: One of her close female friends has been living with a boyfriend for a year.

College students now are also coming of age at a time when more progressive representations of sexuality are visible in film and television, mainstream media, and even on campus. Zhihe, a student organization based at Shanghai's prestigious Fudan University, attempts to fill the gaps in classroom-based sexual education with events, discussions, and its own online media channels. The organization's WeChat messaging group has over 300 members.

For Zhang Hanzhen, the 20-year-old president of Zhihe, it is important for a discussion of sexuality to include both feminist and LGBTQ perspectives. For him and for other gay and lesbian members of Zhihe, Zhang says that "while (men's preferences for female virgins) do not directly concern us, we neither understand nor approve of such a mindset. ".

Every year, the student group produces its own version of "The Vagina Monologues," based on Eve Ensler's 1996 play and adapted to include stories from Zhihe's members' own experiences.

In a rapidly changing China, traditional sexual mores are simultaneously challenged by countercultural groups and defended by staunch conservatives. And while traditional culture promotes female chastity before marriage, contemporary Western media often scorns a lack of sexual experience. Building a truly liberal atmosphere, in which no position is shamed, is no easy task.

"Either promoting or denigrating the lack of sexual experience makes me feel uneasy," Mary Yang says. "Sex is personal I don't like to be judged for it. ".

Correction: A previous version of this story included a reference to a survey of Chinese men that apparently found that 90 percent of respondents preferred to date virgins, but incorrectly linked a different article. As no reliable source was found for the survey, we have removed this reference.

[Ikksman]

Hi Pushkin,
Your approach also enables the accurate posting of Chinese characters and pinyin. The problem is that some posters do not read either of our suggested approaches to correctly display Chinese on the ISG forums.
But the main thrust of my post was to present something that has never been published on ISG or anywhere else. This is, when another member does not follow our suggestions, and incorrectly posts Chinese phrases. Then all we read are incomprehensible number and words! {S N I P}
My post explained a method to show the correct characters and pinyin from the totally incomprehensible rubbish. Perhaps I did not explain very well, {S N I P }

I can give a more detailed example of the procedure. Someone recently posted a Chinese phrase which the ISG web site software (vBulletin) converted into:

"90分38047;2次10084;65039;26381;21153;36229;32423;22909;65292;37197;21512;24230;39640;12290;".

Note that the editor does not alter the first Chinese character at the beginning of a string of Chinese. The following Chinese characters are converted into a series of 5 digit numbers followed by a semi-colon. These are partial Unicode HTML codes. If the writer had included pinyin, these would also have been corrupted (removing the characters with tones).

(1) Add &# to the beginning of each 5 digit number in the string, leaving the ; at the end of each number. This provides a string of true Unicode HTML codes in the format &#(5 digit number);. I cannot show here the exact result as the editor (bizarrely) now converts the Unicode to their correct Chinese characters. To give you a better idea of the modified string, I have added a space after each &# to fool the editor (you do NOT add the space when you are following this process).

90分&# 38047;2次&# 10084;&# 65039;&# 26381;&# 21153;&# 36229;&# 32423;&# 22909;&# 65292;&# 37197;&# 21512;&# 24230;&# 39640;&# 12290;

(2) Run this string through a Unicode to Chinese character converter and we get the correct Chinese characters:

90分钟2次❤️服务超级好，配合度高

(3) Use a Chinese to English translator and we can now read the pinyin and English:

90 Fēnzhōng 2 cì ❤️fúwù chāojí hǎo, pèihé dù gāo

90 minutes 2 times ❤️ service super good, with high degree of cooperation

Ikks.

P.S. The Unicode converter that I most commonly use is http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/c...r-unichar.html.

[Ikksman]

Include your chinese phrase (s) in quotes, save the post to another document, for example "Notepad", preview the report (and note the chinese writing which has been converted to a number string), copy and paste from your "Notepad" document the necessary chinese phrase (s) over the number string. Then upload the report.
Often works for me! Hahaha.
Enjoy and report.
P13.

Hi Pushkin,

Your approach also enables the accurate posting of Chinese characters and pinyin. The problem is that some posters do not read either of our suggested approaches to correctly display Chinese on the ISG forums.

But the main thrust of my post was to present something that has never been published on ISG or anywhere else. This is, when another member does not follow our suggestions, and incorrectly posts Chinese phrases. Then all we read are incomprehensible number and words! How do we reconvert the garble into something understandable?.

It always irritates me when a member posts something like:

Do you swallow? 你20570;21475;27963;20799;21527;65311; Kou Huo are.

My post explained a method to show the correct characters and pinyin from the totally incomprehensible rubbish. Perhaps I did not explain very well, but I did step through how to retranslate the above into:

Do you swallow? 你做口活儿吗？ Nǐ zuò kǒu huó er ma?

I do not believe that anybody has presented a solution to this problem before, and this will enable readers to go back to previously incomprehensible posts and learn often valuable, sensible and useful phrases.

Ikks.

P.S. Actually I think the above means "do you give a BJ (mouth work)?" rather than "do you swallow?

[Pushkin13]

I have many times suggested that to display the Hanzi characters, one needs to put a space between, or to enclose in bold or italic (few seem to read or follow this advice to help other members).

However, to convert the posts of others to the correct Chinese characters, this is also simple albeit a bit time consuming. The process is shown below using the previous example.

1. Complete the numeric HTML Unicode by adding &# at the beginning of each number (and leaving the semicolon at the end of each number).

2. Use a Unicode to Chinese conversion tool to get the correct Chinese characters from the Unicode version and append to the first (correctly shown) character.

GM = 干摩
XT = 胸推
SM = 水摩

3. Then retranslate the complete expression to English.

GM = 干摩 = gn m = fuck (vulgar) massage
or, gān m = dry massage (without oil)
XT = 胸推 = xiōng tuī = chest push (massage with tits)
SM = 水摩 = shuǐ m = water massage

I generally use the Chinese-Tools dot com website to do the conversion. There are many others.

Anybody know any faster solutions?

Ikks.

Include your chinese phrase (s) in quotes, save the post to another document, for example "Notepad", preview the report (and note the chinese writing which has been converted to a number string), copy and paste from your "Notepad" document the necessary chinese phrase (s) over the number string. Then upload the report.

Often works for me! Hahaha.

Enjoy and report.

P13.

[Ikksman]

Recently there has been some chatter about cybersecurity and internet access. I am not a total guru in this area but I do know some people who are gurus.

Firstly be aware that all China telecom companies (which are generally government owned) readily provide data information, including location information to the government and will block messages that contain "sensitive" key words (which are regularly updated as required). Be aware that your data and information is not "private" in China.

So, it is impossible to completely fly under the radar in China. Personally, I have always used a separate phone (generally with a SIM card purchased overseas) to give a bit of additional privacy (and to minimise potential privacy concerns with your regular GF / wife).

Viruses, Worms, etc, etc

It should be obvious that you should install quality virus and spyware protection software on both your PC and your mobile phone. And be sure to install the latest updates (some companies provide updates as regularly as every week). An increasing amount of malware is coming out of China / North Korea and South Korea.

Messaging/Dating/Pick up Services

The most popular apps for Chinese are WeChat, QQ and Tantan (There are many others). None of these provide end-to end data encryption or have backdoors that totally negate any privacy that encryption is supposed to provide. I suspect that this is a government directive, which will probably be relaxed as their snooping capabilities increase.

When using non-Chinese apps, check that they utilize strong end-to-end encryption. For example, MS Skype has notoriously weak encryption. Amnesty dot org is one of many sites where you can collect information on the security of these apps.

WeChat has also implemented different techniques for identifying the physical location of mobile phones. Apps such as FakeGPS are no longer effective to change or mask your location. I do not know of any spoofing app that gets around this restriction. I have not investigated whether or not TanTan is in the same category.

VPNs

You need a VPN service to access many external websites when you are in China. When selecting a VPN provider:

(1) Select a company that owns its own servers (I think StrongVPN and Pure VPN fall into this category)? This greatly enhances the reliability of the service, with their ability to quickly switch servers when China (periodically) blocks VPN servers (or more correctly the servers' IP addresses) trying to access the GFW.

(2) Do not use companies that utilize servers located in China.

(3) Download the app (both PC and mobile) when you are outside of China. You will probably find that the website is blocked by the GFW, when you are in China.

(4) Don't use the PPTP or L2 TP protocols. China is able to hack these in real time! SSTP, OpenVPN and IPSec Protocols are more secure, but not bulletproof.

BTW, I do not know of any Chinese (non-HK) companies providing VPN services, and, if they exist, they would be totally insecure.

In conclusion, be aware of the risks and act accordingly to your own assessment and your own personal security requirements.

Ikks.

[Intransit]

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/100021...transformation

What Sex Workers Can Tell Us About China's Transformation.

Scholar Ding Yu explains how sex work reflects changing times, from 'xiaojie' to 'compensated dating. '.

Qian Jinghua.

In the 1990's, if you were a young woman in any Chinese city, everyone from waiters to taxi drivers would call you xiaojie. Ten years later, the once-ubiquitous term had become a euphemism for female sex workers. Some government offices even passed guidelines banning their employees from referring to their colleagues as xiaojie.

Though prostitution was outlawed in China in 1949, it has proven to be an extensive and resilient industry. Chinese economist Yang Fan has estimated that up to 20 million people are engaged in some form of sex work — from mistresses in private apartments and "money boys" in high-end clubs to street-based workers of all genders. Massage parlors, karaoke clubs, mahjong game rooms, and hair salons are all common sites for commercial sex.

Ding Yu is an associate professor of sociology and social work at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and she has spent more than 10 years researching the lives of female sex workers in the dynamic and developed Pearl River Delta region, where the university is based.

Covering Macau, Hong Kong, and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta is now the world's largest urban area in terms of both size and population. Millions of migrants from less affluent parts of China have poured into the region, which produces a quarter of the country's exports in less than 1 percent of its territory. The area is also famous for high-profile raids on its red-light districts, especially in the cities of Dongguan and Shenzhen.

Both in China and overseas, academic research on sex work often focuses on law and morality, with plenty of pages devoted to arguing for either the decriminalization or the eradication of the industry. Ding's research, however, shifts the spotlight to how xiaojie — as the women prefer to call themselves — see their own lives. As part of her fieldwork, Ding even lived with two xiaojie off and on for a period of six months.

What she found was that while academics and advocates often insist that sex work should be considered a form of labor, many xiaojie understand their role differently — and in fact delight in the ways their lives diverge from women laborers. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Sixth Tone: You write about xiaojie not only in terms of business, but also in terms of desire and identity. How did you come to understand the xiaojie label?

Ding Yu: Within the community, many don't especially like or understand the term "sex worker" and prefer the term xiaojie.

I found that the term "sex worker" was mostly used by academics pushing to legalize the industry. Many academics feel that it's important to respect this community by using a term that classifies what they do as a profession. But in fact, many xiaojie don't really understand or like this name because they feel the term emphasizes sex.

The term "sex worker" reduces all their work to sex, which doesn't reflect the reality of what they do. It doesn't accurately represent the diverse forms of emotional work and entertainment that they're engaged in; rather, it highlights the one part that's stigmatized.

Another important reason is that the term xiaojie has a particular context from the period of China's opening-up (in the 1980's). Back then, it wasn't such a common term for referring to women because it sounded so bourgeois. It's a term that was associated with capitalism and cosmopolitanism.

So xiaojie as a word has few negative aspects for the women. It's a little bit ambiguous, it can hold rich and varied meanings, and it's commonly understood.

Sixth Tone: Many of the xiaojie you interviewed come from the countryside. How does this pathway compare to the other options available to them?

Ding Yu: There's an important class dimension. As migrants coming from the country to the city, they want to be part of this modern, developed world. They want to shed the kind of coarseness that's associated with the countryside.

The most common other option for migrant women is to work in a factory. Most xiaojie are very well-informed about the conditions of factory work, and they know they're not interested.

They know other women from their hometowns who are factory laborers, and there are plenty of media reports that show how it is tedious, repetitive, and arduous, how the worker is treated like a machine. They know you're stuck in dorm accommodation, far from the city center, producing luxury items you can't afford to buy yourself. They know you are outside the modernity and development as a handmaiden to it.

Other options, such as being a waitress or nanny or shop assistant — these positions generally see lower income and worse working conditions than being a xiaojie, which is thus not a particularly poor option.

Sixth Tone: There has been a huge crackdown on sex work in China in the past few years. What has changed for the women?

Ding Yu: The work becomes more concealed. Encounters with clients might be more indirect: Instead of regulars who visit the mahjong club or hair salon, they will connect online or through apps.

With more online business, it's hard to compare how people operate now with the community of xiaojie in the past. There's maybe more of what the Japanese call "compensated dating" — a sexual encounter in order to pay for a vacation or buy an iPhone. You go out with a guy, he'll pick up the bill, take you to a film, buy you a luxury bag.

With compensated dating, these people might not see themselves as either xiaojie or sex workers — they don't see it as work. They might emphasize that it's a kind of dating or even a hookup. It's more part of the culture of casual sex than a business transaction.

Sixth Tone: Sex work has a long history in China. How has its mainstream perception changed?

Ding Yu: I think there's been very little change in mainstream perception over the decades. It's not that people opposed it in the past and accept it now. There has always more or less been this attitude of having one eye open and one eye closed. People don't think it's absolutely corrupt or immoral, but they also can't entirely accept it. For the most part, people accommodate it.

For young people, their growing openness to sexuality might mean that the overall environment is a little easier, comparatively. With apps and everything, there are more ways for them to express their sexuality or meet sexual needs.

Sixth Tone: You have said that it's difficult to research sex work in China because you can't get funding or teach related subjects. What has been the impact of that gap in research?

Ding Yu: The research environment is tighter than it was. From around 1995 to the early 2000's, there was more funding and more freedom for research and publication for work around sexuality. But in the last few years, it has become much harder to publish anything on those topics. Editors will tell you, "We don't publish things like that. ".

The impact is that there has been very little research on the major changes to this industry and this community, or on how their work and needs have changed. We lack a deep understanding of that.

[Ikksman]

I figured them out with a bit of context:
GM = 干25705; Gan Mo = Dry Rubbing. Massage without oil. Usually implies sex.
XT = 胸25512; Xiong Tui = Chest Push. Massage with tits.
SM = 水25705; Shui Mo = Water Massage. Nuru (or at least the Chinese imitation of it).

I have many times suggested that to display the Hanzi characters, one needs to put a space between, or to enclose in bold or italic (few seem to read or follow this advice to help other members).

However, to convert the posts of others to the correct Chinese characters, this is also simple albeit a bit time consuming. The process is shown below using the previous example.

1. Complete the numeric HTML Unicode by adding &# at the beginning of each number (and leaving the semicolon at the end of each number).

2. Use a Unicode to Chinese conversion tool to get the correct Chinese characters from the Unicode version and append to the first (correctly shown) character.

GM = 干摩
XT = 胸推
SM = 水摩

3. Then retranslate the complete expression to English.

GM = 干摩 = gàn mó = fuck (vulgar) massage
or, gān mó = dry massage (without oil)
XT = 胸推 = xiōng tuī = chest push (massage with tits)
SM = 水摩 = shuǐ mó = water massage

I generally use the Chinese-Tools dot com website to do the conversion. There are many others.

Anybody know any faster solutions?

Ikks.

[Ikksman]

I am agnostic, and tech-illiterate, on the usage of these apps, but I had not heard of TanTan, and near the top of the Google search, this report (raising very valid concerns of using TanTan in the land of 100 million hackers) popped up near the top:

https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-chi...ne-screws-you/

I did a quick search on Google, and nearly all the hits were copies of the Larry Saribra article. I believe his analyses are accurate. His 2 main points were:

(1) that TanTan does not offer end-to-end encryption (although have promised to offer in the future), and.

(2) their app is easily hacked by tech savvy nerds using various software tools (note that usage of the HTTPS / SSL safeguard is not a big stumbling block to hackers).

AFAIK, WeChat and QQ also do not use end-to-end encryption (which are both owned by Tencent, also a Chinese company), although WeChat has sadly blocked the use of GPS spoofing apps such as FakeGPS. I am not sure about TanTan. Additionally, all Chinese companies will happily allow the government free access to their users' data, both real time and archived.

I also contend that a lot of encryption is easily broken by government hackers. Microsoft Skype utilises a particularly weak form of encryption.

In conclusion, whether you use WeChat, QQ or TanTan you need to be aware of their vulnerabilities and take precautionary steps if you fear consequences.

Ikks.

[WildHawk]

Apps like WeChat, QQ and ChinaLoveCupid, in China, are seriously dying in terms of usefulness for dating Chinese girls (casually and serious).

Speaking to guys (both Chinese and Western), they state that TanTan and MoMo are the way to go. ...

Ikks.

I am agnostic, and tech-illiterate, on the usage of these apps, but I had not heard of TanTan, and near the top of the Google search, this report (raising very valid concerns of using TanTan in the land of 100 million hackers) popped up near the top:

https://www.larrysalibra.com/how-chi...ne-screws-you/

[Jude Bright]

Any of you local hands want to give me some consolidated advice for tech on my upcoming trip? Last time in the middle kingdom I was frustrated by not having the right apps to travel and hobby effectively. By RTFF I have the following essentials:

WeChat.

Baidu maps.

Baidu translate.

Tantan.

Any other app recommendations for logistics or hooking up?

Qq is another app in monger field. I use qq to connect with girls and wechat with my friends.

Jb.

[Bone Roller]

Any of you local hands want to give me some consolidated advice for tech on my upcoming trip? Last time in the middle kingdom I was frustrated by not having the right apps to travel and hobby effectively. By RTFF I have the following essentials:

WeChat.

Baidu maps.

Baidu translate.

Tantan.

Any other app recommendations for logistics or hooking up?