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News on Chinese Society

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Hoops of joy as NBA returns

US basketball games return to CCTV after two-year ban
Apr 8, 2022 (WiC 580)

The showing of American professional basketball games on China’s state broadcaster CCTV was viewed as an icebreaker when Sino-US relations dipped to freezing point in 1989. CCTV stopped such broadcasts in May 1999, however, after the Chinese ...

Women’s rights take centre stage on TV and at the Two Sessions
Mar 11, 2022 (WiC 576)

In her book Forget Having It All, writer Amy Westervelt summed up the dilemma facing working mothers: “We expect women to work like they don’t have children, and raise children as if they don’t work.” It was International ...

Social media exposes horror of chained wife in Xuzhou
Feb 18, 2022 (WiC 573)

In late January a Douyin vlogger posted a video of a middle-aged woman tethered in a freezing outhouse in Xuzhou city in Jiangsu province with a chain around her neck. She was lightly dressed despite the freezing weather and dirty, with many ...

Widow calls time on Bo Yang’s controversially named book
Nov 26, 2021 (WiC 565)

A decade ago when Taiwanese starlet Barbie Hsu tied the knot with Wang Xiaofei, the heir to the South Beauty restaurant group, the marriage was billed by media outlets on both sides of the Taiwan Strait as “the wedding of the century” (see ...

Netizens appalled as dog death captured on camera
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

Chaofen was a five year-old corgi with an owner who doted on him so much that she installed surveillance cameras at home so she could keep an eye on him when she was out. That also allowed his owner, a Ms Fu, to look on in horror as two epidemic ...

A much loved cartoon is remastered for the big screen
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

Children in mainland China in the early 1980s were often fans of the feature-length cartoon Legend of the Sealed Book. Based on a fourteenth century novel by Luo Guanzhong, the exquisitely-drawn cartoon tells the story of Yuan Gong, ...

Spill the beans

Elon Musk’s literary post on social media puzzles netizens
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

What was he thinking? That’s a question often asked of the unorthodox Tesla CEO Elon Musk – now ranked as the world’s richest man by Bloomberg. But this week the question was a literal one, as millions tried to figure out the meaning of a ...

Why are a quarter of young Chinese depressed?
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

A quarter of Chinese teenagers are depressed; young adults experience the greatest levels of anxiety; and women should be given more mental health support during pregnancy. These are just some of the findings from China’s second nationwide ...

Xiangyin’s gender agenda

Online backlash after town tells women not to leave
Oct 15, 2021 (WiC 559)

Chinese women are used to being categorised into unpleasantly named groups. Women who aren’t married by their late twenties are shengnu or ‘leftover women’. Those who conduct affairs with married men are xiaosan, or ...

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 ...

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