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Graduate opts for country life
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

"Fame portends trouble for humans just as fattening does for pigs” warns a rather gloomy Chinese proverb. But for Long Bo, a business administration graduate from Sichuan, and his girlfriend Wang Xu it was a decision to start up a pig farm of ...

Why Confucius is back in vogue
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

A teacher in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the Wuhan Morning Post, An Deyi runs a home school (or rather, rehab) in Wuhan that cures young internet junkies. His secret? According to An: “To cure ...

Downturn sees mistresses made redundant
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

Zhang Mutou, an area of the formerly booming Dongguan industrial zone in Southern China, has two nicknames. The first is ‘Little Hong Kong’, a recognition of the nationality of many of the factory owners. The second is ‘the Paradise of ...

Controversy surrounds auction of Chinese artefacts
Feb 27, 2009 (WiC 4)

When Lord Elgin’s Anglo-French forces marched on Beijing in 1860, they were largely unopposed. It was quite possibly the most pathetic episode in China’s 5,000 year military history. But it was hardly a moment the British and French can ...

An old idea gets a new airing
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

Throughout China’s long history, a belief has prevailed – since the time of the Zhou dynasty in 1000 BC – that the ruler’s legitimacy is conferred by the “mandate of heaven”. Natural disasters and social uprisings occur when that ...

Why Zhu Jianqiang wants to be alone
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

In a country that eats 5 million metric tonnes of pork per year, there is a certain kudos to being the nation’s most favoured pig. Such is the blessed lot of porker, Zhu Jianqiang. Zhu’s name, which translates as ‘strong willed or ...

How the Chinese celebrate Valentine’s Day
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

The Chinese are such fans of Valentine’s Day that they celebrate it not once, but twice every year. Qi Xi, the Chinese version of the amorous day falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and has been ...

Another kind of cultural revolution is underway in China
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

When the French movie, The Slipper and The Rose, was first released 30 years ago, it caused controversy in China. The movie poster showed the two lead characters kissing. The poster was deemed “vulgar” and removed from China’s ...

Why China’s tallest people are in Gansu
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

The Chinese are walking tall, and nowhere more so than in Gansu’s Yongdeng County where they reach 5.8 metres. About 4 metres of that is thanks to the wearing of stilts. (The average Chinese male is 1.77 metres, according to Alvanon, a ...

The over-eighties triumph yet again in China’s national science awards
Feb 13, 2009 (WiC 2)

Reality shows now dominate much of our television schedules. They often double up as talent shows too, in which contestants warble and dance their way into a brief burst in the limelight. Youthful good looks usually trump intellect and experience ...

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Graduate opts for country life Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5) "Fame portends trouble for humans just as fattening does for pigs” warns a rather gloomy Chinese proverb. But for Long Bo, a business administration graduate from Sichuan, and his girlfriend Wang Xu it was a decision to start up a pig farm of ...

Why Confucius is back in vogue Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5) A teacher in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the Wuhan Morning Post, An Deyi runs a home school (or rather, rehab) in Wuhan that cures young internet junkies. His secret? According to An: “To cure ...

An old idea gets a new airing Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3) Throughout China’s long history, a belief has prevailed – since the time of the Zhou dynasty in 1000 BC – that the ruler’s legitimacy is conferred by the “mandate of heaven”. Natural disasters and social uprisings occur when that ...

Why Zhu Jianqiang wants to be alone Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3) In a country that eats 5 million metric tonnes of pork per year, there is a certain kudos to being the nation’s most favoured pig. Such is the blessed lot of porker, Zhu Jianqiang. Zhu’s name, which translates as ‘strong willed or ...

Why Confucius is back in vogue
Mar 6, 2009 (WiC 5)

A teacher in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the Wuhan Morning Post, An Deyi runs a home school (or rather, rehab) in Wuhan that cures young internet junkies. His secret? According to An: “To cure ...

An old idea gets a new airing
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

Throughout China’s long history, a belief has prevailed – since the time of the Zhou dynasty in 1000 BC – that the ruler’s legitimacy is conferred by the “mandate of heaven”. Natural disasters and social uprisings occur when that ...

Why Zhu Jianqiang wants to be alone
Feb 20, 2009 (WiC 3)

In a country that eats 5 million metric tonnes of pork per year, there is a certain kudos to being the nation’s most favoured pig. Such is the blessed lot of porker, Zhu Jianqiang. Zhu’s name, which translates as ‘strong willed or ...