Chen Dongcheng (陈东成 || Francis)
@fncischen
independent cultural/business affairs writer || email: [email protected]
What a @SnapAR Custom Landmarker looks like in the living room lol
Really loving the @SnapAR Lens Studio 4.55 Update! The AR Custom Landmarkers now include color scans on the viewport so you can easily plan your 3D location based scenes out w/the right colors! Going to be much easier to work w/ clients on this - thanks @SnapAR team! 😎
🤯They built a micro city inside the shopping mall! Zhengzhou, China.
Mixed Chinese Korean Filipino Gen Z cashier at Hawaii at Nijiya Market gave me the price of my bottled milk tea in fluent Japanese lol. My mind went crazy
BBQ lamb skewers sizzling and dripping fat over the charcoal in Ordos City.
In Chinese mythology legend, the golden toad is a creature of fortune, spitting coins and drawing wealth. Daoist immortal Liu Hai famously tamed one—a thousand-year-old, money-spewing beast. Wherever he walked, silver and gold followed: “Liu Hai plays with the golden toad, money…
One of the major problems with rapid economic growth is people's expectations outgrow feasible reality. Young people fresh out of school have unrealistic salary expectations, people who own property have unrealistic expectations of asset price growth.
The difference in China from 2019 as compared to today is very different. There has been a complete humbling of society as the economy tanked and economic sentiment turned sour. Hospitality is way up. Prices are flat or down. Coming from NYC where price are nose bleed high, the…
On July 26, Hangzhou locals and international students from Hangzhou Normal University and Zhejiang University of Technology took part in an immersive visit to the Wu Yue Cultural #Museum and following sharing session! 🎉 Director Bao Weihua shared insights on cultural…
Black Americans couple in China showing their home 😝
Humanoids in nursing homes make life easier for senior citizens in Shenzhen, China. They can play table tennis, lead exercise sessions, fold clothes, bring food… AI for real-life problems.
Beijing vs New York Mayor of Beijing - Phd - Engineering from Tsinghua - Masters from Harvard in Public Policy - 30 yrs Government Experience 🇺🇸 Future Mayor of NYC - BA African Studies - Been a citizen for 7 yrs - Born 1991 - Mayor of NYC is 1st real job
I will get a ton of backlash for saying this, but I always recommend women in tech to work for a man where possible, instead of a woman. Before the pitchforks come: every time I’ve mentioned this to someone in real time, she has nodded vehemently and thanked me for putting into…
Just added this Hokkaido onion dressing to my French Bread this is so good lol

Rereading this book
Excited to read “The Book of Beijing”, an anthology of short stories of 21st Century contemporary Beijing from Bingbing Shi (@verashi0730) - the intro is so compelling
this has been a big issue for me too since there’s a lot of debt financing in the US economy but that’s not accounted for in these economic studies
NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED