Society « Week In China - Part 4

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The #MeToo movement struggles to take off in China
Jan 26, 2018 (WiC 395)

In 2004 Luo Xixi was studying for her PhD at a prestigious aeronautics institute in Beijing. She was happy and excited by her academic pursuit. She later alleged this happiness was destroyed when her supervisor Chen Xiaowu tried to rape her by ...

Why medical students are unwilling to pick paediatrics
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

“Our overworked doctors have fallen sick. We have suspended our service. We are not sure when we will reopen.” That was the sign on the door of the paediatrics department of a public hospital in Tianjin last week. The ward only had three ...

How buying a condo helps in getting a place at university
Dec 8, 2017 (WiC 391)

Getting into a good university is crucial to China’s high school students. They know it can shape the rest of their lives in terms of where they live, how much they earn, and even whom they marry. So it is not surprising that families go to ...

Another daycare scandal, this time in Beijing (or maybe not)
Dec 1, 2017 (WiC 390)

Police cover up or group hysteria? That’s what many people are asking after Beijing police said that they had found no evidence of child abuse at a private kindergarten in China’s capital. Last week parents at RYB Education’s Xintiandi ...

Clearance campaign shocks the citizens of Beijing
Dec 1, 2017 (WiC 390)

December is being dubbed as the coldest winter ever in Beijing, which seems pessimistic on the first day of the month. But it’s not the temperature the locals are talking about, focusing instead on a ‘cold’ clearance campaign targeting ...

Ctrip faces creche scandal
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

2017 hasn’t been a very good year for showcasing the teacher-student relationship at some of China’s schools. In April, two kindergarten teachers in Beijing were caught on camera throwing and kicking a child. A month later, a teacher was seen ...

Young Chinese worry they’re losing their hair prematurely
Nov 17, 2017 (WiC 388)

In China each generation born to a new decade is said to have defining characteristics. Those born in the Sixties are said to be conservative and patriotic; those in the Seventies are ‘conflicted’, having come into the world at time of ...

Why Nottingham Ningbo is angry about a new TV drama
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

It costs more than Rmb100,000 ($15,057) a year to attend the University of Nottingham in Ningbo. So when a popular drama on Hunan TV suggested that the education there was sub-par, the university’s teachers and alumni protested. “I ...

New survey reveals ignorance about contraception
Nov 3, 2017 (WiC 386)

You would think that the Chinese know all about contraception. After all, they have had to respect strict family planning policies for almost 40 years. But it turns out that many of them know very little about birth control. A recent ...

Xi Jinping unveils his Politburo picks as the Party Congress closes
Oct 27, 2017 (WiC 385)

In the early 1940s, IBM’s president Thomas Watson suggested that “there is a world market for about five computers”. By computers he meant those vacuum-tube machines as big as living rooms. Yet the remark has gone down in history as one of ...

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