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News on Chinese Society

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Much-needed debate about domestic abuse, after make-up star speaks out
Dec 6, 2019 (WiC 477)

In her popular online videos make-up artist Yuyamika is bubbly, funny and talented. She transforms herself into John Lennon, the Mona Lisa or Albert Einstein simply by redrawing the contours of her face and applying a little colour. But on ...

See you in court

Accused claims that his prosecutor is a gangster too
Nov 29, 2019 (WiC 476)

It is the stuff of courtroom dramas – the accused (a gangster) turns the tables on the prosecutor, outing him as the gang’s ultimate protector. And this is what seemed to be happening in Chongqing earlier this month when 45 year-old Yin ...

Henan school case puts spotlight on bullying teachers
Oct 25, 2019 (WiC 471)

The Chinese media has a bleak expression to describe the methods employed by some of the country’s 17 million teachers. Dama Jiaoyu literally means ‘teaching by cursing and beating’ – and reports of this pedagogical brutality ...

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 ...

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