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News on Chinese Society

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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 ...

Whistleblowing is still a dangerous choice in China
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

For 16 years the body of Deng Shiping lay buried beneath the running track of a Hunan school. Repeated attempts by his family to get the authorities to dig up the site failed. Without a body they could not prove that Deng, who worked at the ...

A long delayed reprisal

Why a teacher was beaten up by his student 20 years later
Jun 21, 2019 (WiC 457)

Could you forgive a teacher who bullied you as a student? That is the question many Chinese are asking themselves after a 33 year-old man from Luanchuan county in Henan attacked a teacher who allegedly abused him 20 years ago. Chang Renyao ...

New KAWS clothing line sets Chinese fans on a stampede
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

Originally a graffiti artist, Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, first painted his Instagram-friendly graphic cartoon characters on hoardings, bus stops and photo booths. Soon the distinctive characters were turning up on toys, street ...

A box-office monster?

A Hollywood comeback for Chinese star Zhang Ziyi
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

When Godzilla was rebooted in 2014, it was the first entry in Legendary Entertainment’s newly minted ‘MonsterVerse’ – that is to say the franchise that also features King Kong (the fictional giant ape got his own big screen ...

Public anger over revelation a gangster dodged punishment
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

In 2018 Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a dahei or ‘strike black’ campaign against gangs and organised crime. It was the natural corollary to his long-running anti-corruption campaign and he ordered his investigators in ...

Friends for life

A travel show about four celebrity friends is Tencent’s latest online sensation
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

Women going on road trips is a movie genre that made its greatest stir in the 1991 classic Thelma and Louise, when the protagonists – played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon – drive off a cliff in the final scene. More generally, ...

Korean war movies ‘in’ – Game of Thrones and a US college drama ‘out’
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The world watched with baited-breath this week as an eight-year odyssey drew to a close and it finally became clear who had won the Iron Throne of Westeros. Well, that is, the world apart from China. There, fans of Game of Thrones ...

Knowledge outage

All Wikipedia banned in China
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has many entries on the subject of censorship in China. There is a page about the Great Firewall – the colloquial name for the virtual barrier that controls access on the Chinese internet. There is even a ...

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