How often does The Chairman's Bao post new content?

[Friday]

I really like Du Chinese, so was hoping The Chairman's Bao offered a similar reading tool.

 

But in my free version, I noticed two issues: (1) the audio was playing, but the text wasn't being highlighted to indicate which characters were being read and (2) it wasn't giving new articles daily, as I expect from a news site.

 

Over the several days I tried it, I never saw any new content appear. It also didn't appear to have any coverage of current events, world news, or even China news, just short articles about things like "Some pandas did something cute" or "someone broke a world record", kind of things that might be filler in a newspaper, not a headline.

 

I'm wondering if my experience was just limited by the fact I didn't have a paid account? Do they have updated news article daily?

[Moshen]

Hi Friday,

The Chairman's Bao constantly offers much, much more new content than Du Chinese. I'm a paying member of both sites. I believe TCB posts about three new articles each day. From what I've seen, Du Chinese posts about three new pieces of content each week.

In addition, each article on TCB is accompanied by quizzes that help you absorb, understand and remember new vocabulary. Du Chinese doesn't have that - though I do very much like their stories.

Don't judge what paying members get by what a site offers for free!

[Balthazar]

In my opinion (paying members for a number of years): Not nearly often enough for each specific level. E.g., for HSK 4 there seems to be a new article every 4-5 days, but sometimes as much as week can pass between each posted article.

 

The fact that I'm still a member has mostly to do with habit. Since I'm not using any other functionality than actually reading articles, the value proposition isn't great to me.

[Jan Finster]

I have posted here on a TCB listening marathon I did. Trust me paid TCB service has more content than you will ever finish. It does not really matter if it is "new" anyway since the type of news on TCB is mostly timeless. Sure they have a lot of episodes on life during COVID and the olympics, etc too, but mostly the news is timeless. 

 

Having said that, yes they post new articles frequently at all levels.