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As world mulls mogul’s fall, Chinese analyse sexual harassment at home
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

Sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words. The image of Harvey Weinstein leering at top Chinese actress Fan Bingbing falls into that category (see photo). Weinstein’s alleged victims now include French, Italian, British, American and ...

Pop idol’s love statement sends Sina Weibo into meltdown
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

When actor Wang Baoqiang announced on Sina Weibo that he was divorcing his wife in August 2016 – after accusing her of cheating on him with his agent – the news quickly went viral. Within days, the post was viewed over three billion times and ...

Why a Hong Kong gangster epic is a National Day holiday hit
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Gangster movies don’t normally get a showing at Chinese cinemas given that mafia bosses (along with ghosts) were declared a thing of the past when the Communist Party took power 1949 (both things violated its ideological principles: the first ...

Documentary discusses China’s surveillance system
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Mass surveillance systems sound dystopian at the best of times. But call them Skynet – like the artificial intelligence network that goes rogue in the Terminator films – and they sound especially sinister. None of that has stopped ...

Entrepreneur leaves a suicide note, blames his wife for death
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

At first glance, the story of Su Xiangmao and Zhai Xinxin has all the familiarity of a modern fairy tale. The two made contact through online dating site Jiayuan.com, which means ‘beautiful destiny’ in Chinese. When they finally met ...

Former star’s photo prompts middle-age lament
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

For many of its more avid fans, rock ’n’ roll is more than music: it is a philosophy and a lifestyle, representing independence and a lust for life. In China some of the same sentiment abounds, and it has come to the public’s attention ...

China’s crucial Party Congress meets next month – but how does it work?
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

When the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its first ‘national’ congress in the summer of 1921 it only had about 50 members. Some of them couldn’t afford the trip to the inaugural meeting in Shanghai, where the Party’s constitution ...

Pregnant woman’s suicide sparks outcry
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

Why is a woman’s consent not enough to allow a hospital to perform a C-section? That’s the question many Chinese are asking after Ma Rongrong, a heavily pregnant 26 year-old, jumped to her death at a public hospital – after her family ...

What supermodel Gigi Hadid can learn from the Chinese survivors of Titanic
Sep 8, 2017 (WiC 379)

When Gigi Hadid announced via her social media accounts last week that she will be walking down the runway at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Shanghai in November (for more see last week’s issue), the model was shocked by the backlash that ...

Why Chinese parents want their kids to play niche sports
Sep 8, 2017 (WiC 379)

The two children of actress Liu Tao are known to be avid golfers. Similarly, Olympic gymnast Yang Wei’s son is learning to drive the ball off the tee. The son of Jiao Zhimin, a former world champ at women’s table tennis, is also receiving ...

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