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Local archaeologists claim China dates back 5,800 years
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

The Chinese often claim to be home to one of the oldest civilisations in the world, if not the oldest continuous one. Now, they say they have the evidence to back that up. In May the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the results ...

New rule forbids media profiling exam stars
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

Last week 9.75 million teenagers sat the two-day national university entrance exam known as the gaokao. That’s less than the high of 10.4 million in 2008 but slightly more than last year. What was perhaps more striking this year ...

Sugar Daddy service Seeking Arrangement pulled in China
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

For a brief period in May it looked like China’s professional ‘mistresses hunters’ were going to be in the money. That’s because Seeking Arrangement, the American Sugar Daddy app, was climbing the local download charts. By May 21 some ...

Two TV dramas about women getting ahead polarise opinion in China
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

At first glance, decent roles for Chinese television actresses have become much more abundant in the last few years. The trend has seen many intelligent, complicated and independent female characters feature on the small screen (see ...

A new row over the depiction of conflict with Japan
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

In April the Chinese government introduced a law banning “glorification” of the “Wars of Aggression” – a term for the two Sino-Japanese conflicts fought between 1894 and 1945. More specifically the legislation was designed “to ...

‘Big-Hearted Mama’ nabbed by police in orphan case
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

In Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, Fagin takes in street urchins only to exploit them as pickpockets. In a scandal involving an orphanage in Hebei province, the founder Li Lijuan has been accused of something similar. After ...

New push to help elderly bridge the digital divide
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

In January, a month before Chinese New Year, a series of photos showing an old man crying on the floor of a Shanghai railway station went viral. He wanted to buy a ticket to Suzhou to see his family over the upcoming festival. He had the ...

Rural schools to benefit from 55km trek on Great Wall
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 he remarked that “it takes a great people to build a Great Wall” in reference to the country’s most famous landmark. But to paraphrase Nixon, a walk on the Great Wall can promote a great cause, ...

Sina Weibo lifts ban on gay content after public outcry
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

In the Dream of the Red Chamber – one of China’s four great classical novels – the main male character Jia Baoyu seems to enjoy a romantic relationship with another man, Jiang Yuhan. The Peking opera singer lives with a male ...

Allegations that academics abused their grad students
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

During Qing Ming, or Tomb Sweeping Day, a woman named Li Youyou posted a short online account of her friend’s suicide 20 years earlier. Gao Yan, she said, had been a happy, conscientious undergraduate at Peking University in the ...

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