Society « Week In China - Part 5

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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 ...

As world mulls mogul’s fall, Chinese analyse sexual harassment at home
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

Sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words. The image of Harvey Weinstein leering at top Chinese actress Fan Bingbing falls into that category (see photo). Weinstein’s alleged victims now include French, Italian, British, American and ...

Pop idol’s love statement sends Sina Weibo into meltdown
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

When actor Wang Baoqiang announced on Sina Weibo that he was divorcing his wife in August 2016 – after accusing her of cheating on him with his agent – the news quickly went viral. Within days, the post was viewed over three billion times and ...

Why a Hong Kong gangster epic is a National Day holiday hit
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Gangster movies don’t normally get a showing at Chinese cinemas given that mafia bosses (along with ghosts) were declared a thing of the past when the Communist Party took power 1949 (both things violated its ideological principles: the first ...

Documentary discusses China’s surveillance system
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Mass surveillance systems sound dystopian at the best of times. But call them Skynet – like the artificial intelligence network that goes rogue in the Terminator films – and they sound especially sinister. None of that has stopped ...

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