Social gaming firm Zynga - which bought a Beijingstudio in 2010 - has linked up with Tencent to launch a beta version of Zynga City, a local adaption of its Cityville title.
Lang and his father moved into Fengtai, a grim neighborhood of Beijing, where they occupied a studio apartment a hundred feet square, with bunk beds, a piano, a tiny galley kitchen, and no heat.