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Would you pass the gaokao?
Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19)

Most WiC readers will not have sat an examination for a while, although a few more might break out in a cold sweat in recalling the experience. In terms of academic pressure, few tests are more intense than the annual National Higher Education ...

Urban heritage at threat in two cities
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

Talk of China’s fast-eroding architectural heritage usually focuses on Beijing’s central district of hutongs. There are now only about 500 remaining examples of the courtyard houses in the city (although most are at least now on the ...

China cracks down on narcotics
May 29, 2009 (WiC 17)

Ian Dury and the Blockheads summed it up well with their chart topping song, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll in 1977. The road to fame and fortune is long known to be littered with temptation. Man Wenjun, a mainland singer who shot ...

Protests over Huangzhou’s famed lake
May 29, 2009 (WiC 17)

Huangpu Park in Shanghai is famous for a sign that never even existed. Until 1928 Chinese people could only enter the park if accompanied by a foreigner. But from this restriction grew a legend: that a sign posted at the park gate stipulated: ...

Are one in 13 Chinese mad?
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

The Ministry of Health blamed it on “mass hysteria”, reports Caijing magazine. Absent evidence of contamination there was no other plausible way to account for the panicky hospitalisation of hundreds of factory employees at a Jilin chemical ...

Why is China so prudish?
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

China’s first sex-themed park is being demolished – before it’s even been opened. Love Land – located in the entertainment zone near Chongqing – was scheduled to open in October. But it won’t be welcoming any visitors. A Chongqing ...

China’s “hero” pig makes the news again
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

If the swine flu pandemic is dampening China’s love affair with pork, no one is telling Zhu Jianqiang – the nation’s porcine heroine. Zhu Jianqiang, meaning strong-willed or persistent pig, earned national affection after surviving for ...

One of American’s oldest secret societies is reborn in Shanghai
May 22, 2009 (WiC 16)

Henry Luce took the nickname ‘Baal’, Averell Harriman was ‘Thor’. George W Bush couldn’t think of a name himself, and so was christened ‘Temporary’. These and other prominent American men were members of the highly exclusive ...

A new TV show faces flak
May 15, 2009 (WiC 15)

For a generation of romantically-inclined women, the image of Colin Firth emerging from a pond is a very special moment. That pond is in Pemberley, and Firth is playing the fictional character of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television ...

Genealogy reborn
May 8, 2009 (WiC 14)

Millions of Chinese with obscure names – about 60 million in total, according to estimates in a 2006 government report – will soon to be forced to change them. In an effort to modernise its vast database of 1.3 billion citizens, China’s ...

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News on Chinese Society

Would you pass the gaokao? Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19) Most WiC readers will not have sat an examination for a while, although a few more might break out in a cold sweat in recalling the experience. In terms of academic pressure, few tests are more intense than the annual National Higher Education ...

China cracks down on narcotics May 29, 2009 (WiC 17) Ian Dury and the Blockheads summed it up well with their chart topping song, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll in 1977. The road to fame and fortune is long known to be littered with temptation. Man Wenjun, a mainland singer who shot ...

Are one in 13 Chinese mad? May 22, 2009 (WiC 16) The Ministry of Health blamed it on “mass hysteria”, reports Caijing magazine. Absent evidence of contamination there was no other plausible way to account for the panicky hospitalisation of hundreds of factory employees at a Jilin chemical ...

Why is China so prudish? May 22, 2009 (WiC 16) China’s first sex-themed park is being demolished – before it’s even been opened. Love Land – located in the entertainment zone near Chongqing – was scheduled to open in October. But it won’t be welcoming any visitors. A Chongqing ...

A new TV show faces flak May 15, 2009 (WiC 15) For a generation of romantically-inclined women, the image of Colin Firth emerging from a pond is a very special moment. That pond is in Pemberley, and Firth is playing the fictional character of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television ...

Genealogy reborn May 8, 2009 (WiC 14) Millions of Chinese with obscure names – about 60 million in total, according to estimates in a 2006 government report – will soon to be forced to change them. In an effort to modernise its vast database of 1.3 billion citizens, China’s ...