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. 

 

 

[Singe]

On 11/9/2024 at 10:00 AM, Balthazar said:

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

 

I've been doing level 4 for ages and have been working backwards and am now in mid-2021. It rarely goes beyond 4 or 5 days before new content is published in a particular level. Whether that's enough for a particular user is up to them but there's so much content now on Chairman's Bao that I'm sure I could now just redo the content I have done and still find it very useful (I haven't done yet). Chairman's Bao just passed the 10,000 article content a couple of days ago so there's so much content on the platform. I've bought the lifetime membership of Chairman's Bao and I've already got my monies worth. I make sure I do an article every day and haven't missed a day in over a year now.

 

Regarding how often new content is published. There's usually one or two new articles each day across the grades, very rarely three. I can't remember ever seeing a day pass without new content.

 

Not a DuChinese payer. Have thought about it and am interested in others comments.

[Balthazar]

On 11/20/2024 at 7:41 PM, Singe said:

Whether that's enough for a particular user is up to them but there's so much content now on Chairman's Bao that I'm sure I could now just redo the content I have done and still find it very useful (I haven't done yet

 

Sure, the archive is big. I think it's an individual thing whether or not you find it a good value proposition. For me personally, reading news articles that are fairly recent is much more interesting that reading stuff that is more than a few year old. This is despite the fact that the TCB "news" is often quite timeless in nature ("Rural village becomes famous for quirky thing X"), so I can't really say why. However, I do feel more motivated to consume other (often free or much cheaper) materials rather than the TCB archives. So when there's only 1,5 new articles per week at my current level, the price becomes rather steep.

 

Again, totally individual thing.

[Moshen]

I read articles one level up and one level down from my most comfortable level, so it's a good value proposition for me.