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Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: The Mysteries of Taobao

Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: The Mysteries of Taobao24 Sept 201422 min

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<html>With the Alibaba IPO throwing daytraders worldwide into a frenzed adulation of all things China, and the press going wild over Jack Ma and his Chinese e-commerce engine, this week's show takes a closer look at Taobao - the jewel in the Alibaba crown - with a hard-hitting quiz covering the most important things no-one seems to be able to remember about our favourite shopping site. Also on the show: questions about Beijing and the secrets of Uighur time....Quiz Night is a regular feature here at Popup Chinese that we've put together for intermediate to upper-intermediate students. And our goal is not so much teaching anything in particular so much as producing a half-mandarin, half-english show that features higher-level vocabulary you won't run into in other learning materials. Today, join us and learn everything from the name of Goldman Sachs in Chinese, to the essential catchphrases needed to outsource your thesis to somewhere south of Wuhan. Navigate the reincarnated <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-JnUWyA57bATCiYI0BAFg" target="_blank">Popup Chinese archives</a>, including the original customized word-to-word transcripts for this and every other lesson as PDF files:Reincarnated <a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/2145586" target="_blank">Popup Chinese</a> — <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1UAMMJYiwYVwjvtcsftcwc?si=lTF6WipMQ36IVwcYyO59WQ" target="_blank">Popup Chinese</a> — <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popup-chinese/id1896229769" target="_blank">Popup Chinese</a>Reincarnated <a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/2145647" target="_blank">Popup Cantonese</a> — <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4kH3QggH2sjme7KSj09K45?si=VffdRjmHQPCrNN62cvI5ow" target="_blank">Popup Cantonese</a> — <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popup-cantonese/id1896230937" target="_blank">Popup Cantonese</a></html>