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Selling in China, explained

Practical guides to WeChat Mini Programs, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, payments and China market entry — written for overseas teams building a direct channel to Chinese consumers.

5 min read Guides

Korean and Japanese Operators Selling into China

A short flight changes the customer. What long-haul advice gets wrong for operators in Korea and Japan, and which barriers you have already cleared.

5 min read WeChatGuides

What You Supply Before a Mini Program Build Starts

The quote is signed and then three weeks pass with nothing visible happening. Almost always the build is waiting on things only you can hand over.

6 min read Guides

The Tells of AI-Written Chinese

Chinese readers rarely stop to think "a machine wrote this." They register that nobody is home behind the account, and they scroll on. The tells are specific.

6 min read TourismGuides

AI Voice for Chinese Tour Commentary

Synthetic narration handles the scripted part of a day well. What it cannot do is answer, and the failures specific to Chinese are pronunciation, not fluency.

6 min read Guides

Using AI to Read Your Chinese Enquiries and Reviews

Translating messages one at a time is triage. The move that pays is reading a whole season and counting what recurs — carefully, the tool agrees with you.

6 min read WeChatGuides

When Your Bot Quotes the Wrong Price

An assistant states a number in Chinese at three in the morning. Chinese e-commerce law can treat that far more seriously than an awkward email would.

6 min read WeChatGuides

Does Your Mini Program Need an AI Assistant?

It arrives as a feature request and answers better as a staffing question: the only hours an assistant truly works are the ones nobody is awake for.

6 min read XiaohongshuGuides

Will an AI-Written Xiaohongshu Note Get You Flagged?

Two different worries hide inside that question, and separating them turns it into something you can act on. Neither answer has much to do with detection.