UK Students in China: kanqiu app Without the Hassle
Watching football in China: why the kanqiu app question gets messy fast It is Friday evening in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu or a university flat somewhere a bit less obvious. A UK student has finished class, the Premier League kick-off is creeping closer, and the familiar message lands in a WeChat group: “Anyone got a kanqiu app link?” Sounds simple enough. Kanqiu (看球) literally means “watch football” or, more broadly, “watch the match”. Yet “kanqiu app” is not always one clearly identified product. In everyday chat, people may use it to mean a live-score app, an official broadcaster’s app, a match-discussion group, a sports-streaming service, or whatever link somebody swears worked last weekend. ...