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News on Chinese Society

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Parents cheer China’s latest school reform – less homework
Sep 10, 2021 (WiC 555)

When Chinese students returned to the classroom earlier this month they got the best back-to-school gift they could wish for – a huge cut in their homework quota. Under the new national rules children in grades one and two receive no ...

Time management

China restricts ‘996’ work hours and kids’ gaming time too
Sep 3, 2021 (WiC 554)

The clock and the water mill, Karl Marx once wrote to Friedrich Engels, were two of the discoveries – alongside gunpowder and the printing press – that fostered the growth of the bourgeoisie. And when Marx published Das Kapital four ...

The art of giving

Celebrities compelled to show their support with flood relief donations
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

After the devastating earthquake that killed 69,227 people in Sichuan province in 2008, actress Zhang Ziyi pledged to donate Rmb1 million ($146,000 at the time) to the Chinese Red Cross Foundation. Having made the commitment during the Cannes ...

Kris Wu scandal puts KTVs back into the spotlight
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

KTV, or karaoke, has more of a reputation in China for boozing, sex and corruption than it does for a night out singing with friends and family. Take Kris Wu, a pop singer embroiled in the most costly celebrity scandal in recent memory after ...

A happy ending, at last

Father reunited with abducted son after decades-long search
Jul 23, 2021 (WiC 550)

In the 2015 film Lost and Love, Andy Lau plays a father searching for his kidnapped son for 15 years. Along the way he meets a young man that was trafficked as a kid and together they work to find his parents too. Now, however, there ...

Why Hollywood’s blockbusters won’t benefit from China’s box office in July
Jul 16, 2021 (WiC 549)

Marvel’s highly-anticipated Black Widow has prospered at the box office in the United States, where it has become the highest grossing domestic debut of the post-pandemic era. But the superhero film – which stars Scarlett ...

Elephants on parade

Roaming herd of pachyderms become a media phenomenon
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

When you’re a livestreamer trying to stand out in China, here’s one way to get noticed: confront a herd of wild elephants. That’s what several wannabe web celebrities have done in recent weeks after 15 Asian pachyderms came to national ...

Cut to the bone

Calf reduction is in the news
Jun 4, 2021 (WiC 543)

When Zhiqing, the last factory producing shoes for bound feet, marked its closure in 1999 by donating eight pairs of wooden lasts (i.e. the models used for repairs) to the Heilongjiang Museum of Ethnography, a page in Chinese women’s history ...

Extreme weather leads to 21 deaths in Gansu marathon
May 28, 2021 (WiC 542)

In 2011 China hosted 22 marathons or ultra-long distance races. By 2019 – the year before the Covid-19 pandemic fully took hold – that number had increased to 1,828. Almost every city was showcasing a marathon or some kind of extreme running ...

Inheritance lax

Case of a contested will sparks broad debate in China
May 21, 2021 (WiC 541)

China wants more of its population to make wills. Forty years of economic growth means many of the country’s elderly have more assets to pass on. But the practice of will-making is far from widespread. Many families go to war over inheritances, ...

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