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Hunan Satellite TV faces scheduling crisis as regulator bans its top dramas
Jul 21, 2017 (WiC 375)

Aphoto of Xi Jinping taking a stroll with Barack Obama caused an unexpected stir on the Chinese internet. The snap was taken at the Sunnylands estate in California in 2013 and led amused netizens to post images that showed the two leaders’ ...

China’s refugee debate rages
Jul 7, 2017 (WiC 373)

When the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR began working with the actress Yao Chen the idea was that she would raise awareness of displaced people in a country that accepts almost no refugees itself. Yao travelled to Ethiopia, Lebanon and ...

How Hong Kong has changed since its 1997 handover and what lies ahead
Jun 30, 2017 (WiC 372)

When Margaret Thatcher agreed to hand Hong Kong back to China on July 1, 1997, the Chinese agreed to the principle of “one country, two systems” in which the territory’s way of life would remain unchanged for 50 years. The original ...

Canadian film turns spotlight on disturbing traffic accidents
Jun 30, 2017 (WiC 372)

If the Chinese-Canadian film Old Stone is ever released in China it will be interesting to see how audiences react. It follows the story of Lao Shi, an Anhui taxi driver who accidentally runs over a motorcyclist. Defying the advice ...

Confusion and anger after a kindergarten blast
Jun 23, 2017 (WiC 371)

At 4.50pm last Friday a large explosion ripped through the crowd outside a kindergarten in Feng county, Jiangsu province. A tower of orange flame went up into the sky and people were thrown to the floor. Videos of the aftermath shot on ...

Anhui school back in the headlines in gaokao week
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

Once again the gaokao has rolled around on the academic calendar. The college entrance test is an annual fixture for final-year school students in China, generating examination jitters across the country (for an explanation of the horrors of the ...

More scandal in academia
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

A 3,000-word paper titled The Conceptual Penis As A Social Construct was published this month by Cogent Social Sciences, a leading peer-reviewed academic journal on gender studies. The paper’s authors argue that the ...

Traditional Chinese kung fu gets a bloody nose from rival
May 12, 2017 (WiC 365)

The Ip Man trilogy is sometimes categorised as a biopic. The films focus on the life of Ip Man, the wing chun master who trained a young Bruce Lee, but the action flicks are liberal with their dramatisation of historical ...

Admired director dies age 88
Apr 28, 2017 (WiC 363)

Hong Kong comedian Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back was a sequel to his wildly successful first instalment of the franchise. Although the follow-up performed well at the box office, it was soon heavily ...

New rules to combat extremism in Xinjiang
Apr 28, 2017 (WiC 363)

In the not-too-distant past some Chinese gave their children names to reflect the country’s revolutionary struggle: Jianguo or ‘build the nation’ was common after the founding of Communist China in 1949, and Kangmei or ‘resist US ...

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