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New efforts to curtail ‘bride prices’ in rural areas
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

China has 34 million more men than women – partly the result of a cultural preference for male children, compounded by the One-Child Policy and gender-selective abortions. When these men were born their families probably believed they were ...

Media storm about a crisis of masculinity in China
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

When Mao Zedong ruled supreme in China, androgyny wasn’t considered such a bad thing, in fashion terms at least. Men and women wore similar clothes – baggy blue or grey outfits, comprising of loose fitting trousers and boxy jackets. The ...

Murder or self-defence as gangster Brother Dragon dies?
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

In 2010, a contestant on a dating show announced she would rather “cry in the back of a BMW than laugh on the back of a bicycle”. It was a phrase that captured a moment in Chinese society. The richer were getting richer, social inequality ...

Why China’s lefties are under pressure to change hands
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

The English word “sinister” has two meanings – “left-handed” and “evil”. Likewise the Chinese word for left – “zuo” – denotes unorthodox and incorrect. That, in part, explains why there are so many missing lefties in ...

Michelin launches Guangzhou restaurant guide
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

What’s the next best city for dining out in China after Shanghai? According to vaunted French dining guide, the Michelin Guide, it’s Guangzhou, known to many as the capital of southern Chinese cooking. To make their point, the guide ...

How an online talent show boosted Unilever’s toothpaste sales by 268%
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

The massively popular reality competition Produce 101 has finished, but the controversy has just begun. The show, which has accumulated about 5 billion views online since launching in April, follows a group of 101 contestants as they ...

Indian film about toilets proves surprise China hit
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

A romantic comedy about going to the loo – that film would never get made, right? Wrong. Bollywood produced a movie about exactly that last year. And it is the latest film from India to take China by storm. Toilet: A Love Story ...

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 ...

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