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News on Chinese Society

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Cynics debate motives behind billionaire’s philanthropy
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

If you flick through the 29 chapters of The Great Thoughts of China you will find no mention of the word ‘philanthropy’. A book of quotations, Great Thoughts bills itself as encapsulating “the 3,000 years of wisdom that ...

Property managers urge more civic responsibility
Oct 30, 2009 (WiC 36)

When used condoms appeared on his balcony for two mornings in a row, the first-floor resident of an apartment complex in Shanghai decided that it was time for action. The infuriated man pinned the prophylactics to the building’s communal ...

Princelings and the revolution

The new red icons...
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

For many in China, the only thing better than being a revolutionary hero, is being the son or daughter of one. After all during the Deng Xiaoping era, these so-called ‘princelings’ – the offspring of senior Party officials – went ...

Mrs Yu and her husband fired after cave confrontation
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

To some people the internet is just a way to exchange email, buy books and check the weather. But for bureaucrats in China, the web is a dangerous place to get caught, with some rather serious career-ending possibilities. Back in WiC7, ...

Training for the next generation
Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33)

82 year-old Wu Renbao knows a thing or two about commercial success, even if he is careful not to crow about it. The retired party secretary of a middling-sized village in Jiangsu province is in demand as a tutor to local businessmen, reports ...

Former premier still popular for anti-graft stance
Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32)

"I only hope when I retire, the national people will say: ‘He is a clean officer, not a corrupt one.’ I would be happy with that. If they say Zhu Rongji did something for us ... Ah, I would say thanks to heaven and earth.” The words of ...

China awes the world: Act Two

Expectations are high for next week’s National Day parade
Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32)

Rather than rest on its laurels after the spectacular display at last year’s Olympic opening ceremony, Beijing has called in director Zhang Yimou for a sequel. At least that seems to be the impression of many in the Chinese press, which is ...

From Mao to now

How China’s changed – for better and worse – since October 1, 1949
Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 32)

Sixty years ago, when the People’s Republic of China was founded, its GDP per head was $439. Less well known is that the country’s GDP per capita in 1820 was $600 – i.e. considerably higher than when Mao Zedong took power. Somehow China got ...

Top of the class

A 38 year-old goes to primary school and impresses teachers
Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 31)

As the proverb states: “One is never too old to learn.” Yan Gao is taking the phrase literally. Unable to read and write, he has resolved that it is never to late to go back to school too. To that end, the 38 year-old from Yunnan has ...

Crossing the digital divide

American students study fenqing fervour
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

We have written before (in WiC9) about China’s fenqing, the generation of “angry youth” prone to frenzied, online defences of the nation’s honour. But the Chinese press has steered clear of talking much about the fenqing phenomena, ...

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