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News on Chinese Society

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The war for talent

Top science professor quits Princeton for Shenzhen
Nov 11, 2022 (WiC 607)

When structural biologist Yan Nieng first announced that she was leaving Tsinghua University for Princeton in 2017, she explained her decision thus: “I was afraid of being in an environment for too long that would make me ignorant without me ...

Shenzhen pioneers ‘living will’ for dying patients
Jul 15, 2022 (WiC 593)

Ms Du is a neatly dressed woman in her late forties. She has a good job as a company executive and believes in personal responsibility. She also likes to think well ahead. To that end, she has registered a living will – a document that ...

Top Cantopop singer causes stir with ‘oil’ comments
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

Last Thursday Chinese president Xi Jinping left mainland China for the first time in 29 months. In a tightly-scripted visit, he arrived in Hong Kong – despite a recent rise in Covid-19 infections in the city – to celebrate the 25th ...

Tangshan triads

An attack on three women triggers shock across China
Jun 17, 2022 (WiC 589)

The industrial city of Tangshan is only 150 kilometres east of Beijing, the heart of Chinese government. Yet it appears the writ of the capital has been chronically weak here after a violent attack on three women in a restaurant exposed years ...

Frisbee trend takes off
Jun 3, 2022 (WiC 587)

Ultimate Frisbee was invented in the late 1960s at a New Jersey high school. At the time it was considered a “hippie” sport, where people dropped in casually for pickup games. The rules are simple: teams of seven try to throw the disc up the ...

Hoops of joy as NBA returns

US basketball games return to CCTV after two-year ban
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

The showing of American professional basketball games on China’s state broadcaster CCTV was viewed as an icebreaker when Sino-US relations dipped to freezing point in 1989. CCTV stopped such broadcasts in May 1999, however, after the Chinese ...

Women’s rights take centre stage on TV and at the Two Sessions
Mar 11, 2022 (WiC 576)

In her book Forget Having It All, writer Amy Westervelt summed up the dilemma facing working mothers: “We expect women to work like they don’t have children, and raise children as if they don’t work.” It was International ...

Social media exposes horror of chained wife in Xuzhou
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

In late January a Douyin vlogger posted a video of a middle-aged woman tethered in a freezing outhouse in Xuzhou city in Jiangsu province with a chain around her neck. She was lightly dressed despite the freezing weather and dirty, with many ...

Widow calls time on Bo Yang’s controversially named book
Nov 26, 2021 (WiC 565)

A decade ago when Taiwanese starlet Barbie Hsu tied the knot with Wang Xiaofei, the heir to the South Beauty restaurant group, the marriage was billed by media outlets on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as “the wedding of the century” (see ...

Netizens appalled as dog death captured on camera
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

Chaofen was a five year-old corgi with an owner who doted on him so much that she installed surveillance cameras at home so she could keep an eye on him when she was out. That also allowed his owner, a Ms Fu, to look on in horror as two epidemic ...

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