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News on Chinese Society

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Rat race: winners and losers

The last Year of the Rat in 2008 was disastrous; will this one be any better?
Jan 24, 2020 (WiC 480)

Why does the Rat come first in the Chinese zodiac, a cycle of 12 years, each represented by a different animal? Indeed, why is it part of the zodiac at all, forcing more illustrious animals onto the sidelines? One of the practical explanations ...

No more limits?

China is set to perform a big U-turn in population policy
Jan 24, 2020 (WiC 480)

The year 2021 will see China’s ruling Communist Party celebrate its hundredth birthday. It is also the year that the Party might have to finally undo one of its most intrusive policies – limits on the number of children people can ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Spanish for beginners
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

In sociolinguistics, we talk about learning languages as accumulating “linguistic capital” – investments with stable returns both personally and professionally. Today, it is estimated there are 10 million Chinese speakers of English, just ...

Jiangsu wins war on poverty

The province announces only 17 people now live in poverty
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

In July next year China’s ruling Communist Party will mark 100 years since its founding. Connected to the centenary is a goal to make China a “moderately prosperous society”, or, to put it another way, to bring an end to the worst of the ...

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 ...

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