Society « Week In China - Part 5

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A new row over the depiction of conflict with Japan
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

In April the Chinese government introduced a law banning “glorification” of the “Wars of Aggression” – a term for the two Sino-Japanese conflicts fought between 1894 and 1945. More specifically the legislation was designed “to ...

‘Big-Hearted Mama’ nabbed by police in orphan case
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

In Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, Fagin takes in street urchins only to exploit them as pickpockets. In a scandal involving an orphanage in Hebei province, the founder Li Lijuan has been accused of something similar. After ...

New push to help elderly bridge the digital divide
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

In January, a month before Chinese New Year, a series of photos showing an old man crying on the floor of a Shanghai railway station went viral. He wanted to buy a ticket to Suzhou to see his family over the upcoming festival. He had the ...

Rural schools to benefit from 55km trek on Great Wall
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 he remarked that “it takes a great people to build a Great Wall” in reference to the country’s most famous landmark. But to paraphrase Nixon, a walk on the Great Wall can promote a great cause, ...

Sina Weibo lifts ban on gay content after public outcry
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

In the Dream of the Red Chamber – one of China’s four great classical novels – the main male character Jia Baoyu seems to enjoy a romantic relationship with another man, Jiang Yuhan. The Peking opera singer lives with a male ...

Allegations that academics abused their grad students
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

During Qing Ming, or Tomb Sweeping Day, a woman named Li Youyou posted a short online account of her friend’s suicide 20 years earlier. Gao Yan, she said, had been a happy, conscientious undergraduate at Peking University in the ...

New rules on blood donations hit hospitals and surgeons
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

In early February, Pu Buzhen was due to start chemotherapy for a rare bone marrow disease known as aplastic anaemia. The 34 year-old had waited a year for treatment. Her family had sold cars and property to pay for it. But 10 minutes into the ...

New effort to take some of the pressure off school children
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

Hua Luogeng, one of the leading Chinese mathematicians of the last century, never finished middle school because of poverty and illness. But that didn’t stop the universities of Tsinghua or Cambridge asking the scholar to teach. Hua’s ...

Two dating apps merge
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

When a survey in 2015 revealed that more than half of Guangzhou’s female commuters had experienced some form of sexual harassment (“inappropriate touching”) on public transport, a handful of Chinese cities began reserving subway cars for ...

An acquired taste...
Feb 26, 2018 (WiC 398)

Chinese websites site periodically publish a list of the country’s top 10 favourite dogs. Amazingly Chinese breeds almost never feature. Four such lists from the last four years all include: Labradors, Golden Retrievers, Poodles and ...

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