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News on Chinese Society

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A studio wants to use AI to remove a controversial actress from a drama
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

Back in 2007, a court in Shenzhen became embroiled in a bribery scandal. To rid the venue of bad luck, local officials hired a feng shui master. He noted that the eastern side of the building was facing a factory spewing black smoke. The ...

A bad week for Facebook
Oct 18, 2019 (WiC 470)

Facebook’s ‘react’ function allows its users to display sad, angry and shocked emoticons. And for the company’s critics in China, they were all appropriate in the wake of the death of a Chinese national working for the social media giant ...

Collectors chase the latest lines in miniature dolls
Sep 27, 2019 (WiC 468)

Popmart’s Molly Dolls – pouting, blue-eyed mini-mannequins – have become “a pastime and means of decompression” for thousands of young Chinese women, according to U-quan, a zimeiti blogger. Consumers are kept deliberately ...

An online cooking star is floored by fatal accident
Sep 20, 2019 (WiC 467)

She makes jianbing (Chinese-style pancakes) on a makeshift grill modified from a torn-apart computer. In other videos, she has cooked beef using a clothing iron and even prepared a sukiyaki meal on an electric ...

Raising Arizona

University aghast after Chinese students denied entry
Sep 13, 2019 (WiC 466)

America was once the top choice for Chinese parents wanting to send their children to study overseas. Now, a combination of visa refusals, unexpected repatriations and tighter scrutiny of Chinese students, have mainland families reconsidering ...

Actresses face sartorial abuse
Aug 23, 2019 (WiC 463)

Are women in China free to wear whatever they want? This was the question being asked on the Chinese internet last week after an online magazine claimed they were not. The article – which has now been taken down by censors – was based on the ...

Official vote held for public to decide China’s national flower
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

Most countries have an official national flower. Scotland has the thistle, India the lotus and Malaysia the hibiscus, to name but a few. But China – one of the most botanically rich countries on the planet – does not have a national flower ...

Ungentlemanly conduct?

Female news anchor sparks debate about Chinese men
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

In May CGTN anchor Liu Xin was hailed as a strong woman who defended China’s national dignity in a live debate with Fox Business TV anchor Trish Regan (see WiC455). Today she has been labelled a “giant baby” for complaining that no men ...

Podium politics

Sun Yang faces protest at the pool from Aussie and UK rivals
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

The most-remembered protest in Olympic history came in 1968 in Mexico, when African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists during the US national anthem. The protests at the swimming world championships in ...

No country for old folk?

New report predicts pension scheme deficit by 2035
Jul 19, 2019 (WiC 460)

China introduced its first pension payments in the early 1950s as part of the Work Unit model – the Soviet idea that your employer or danwei would be responsible for housing, healthcare and looking after you in your retirement. But ...

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