Sorry for the long wait! But Conside is coming back with a whole new season! There will be many major improvements going on in Season 2 of Conside. So stay tuned and see what's really going on in China's tech scene. Feature story: The Ups and Downs and Downs of Bike Sharing Pt.1 A primitive coverage of the bike sharing scene in China by The Guardia…

After weeks of reorganization, Conside is finally coming back. Don’t worry that me or the show would disappear. Starting from this episode, Conside will be regularly updated, and bring you the same value with the true insider view of China’s tech scene. Hope you can enjoy it! A little promotion: The book I translated, the Chinese version of The Inn…

Follow up: How an episode of Conside is produced and how paranoid the host is News of the week: Under the pressure from Apple, WeChat closes its reader patronage feature Feature story: Chinese Fantasy Novels Are more Addictive than Cocaine? An American guy gave up his cocaine addiction for the Chinese web novel he’s reading An introduction of the l…

Follow up: Conside has got featured in China’s iTunes Store, and ranked up to the 3rd of tech podcasts News of the week (fortnight): Apple sells the ‘Chinese Red’ edition of iPhone 7 and 7 Plus in China Airbnb finally gets an official Chinese name ‘爱彼迎’ (Ai Bi Ying), but Chinese people don’t seem to like it Feature story: From Onmyoji to the Nijige…

This episode is going a little retrospective. I take a look back on uber’s journey to China in the view of a normal user. How Uber became one of the most successful foreign startups in China? How it fought with the local giant opponents and why it just left China afterwards? What is circumstance of China’s ride-sharing market after Uber’s withdrawa…

Sorry for the delay of the 2# episode of Conside, which is due to the Chinese New Year. So in this episode we have a very Chinese topic—how the Red Envelope gifting tradition was reproduced on mobile apps. You will hear how WeChat, Alipay and QQ tried to step in digital Red Envelope and how this evolved into an annual battle. Behind these battles, …

Welcome to the first episode of Conside, an English podcast focuses on the booming tech scene of China. In this show, you will hear the true insider view of China's startups, innovations, tech trends and the stories behind them. In this episode, I mainly talk about the annual Singles' Day (or 'Double 11') big sale of China. From how it came into be…