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Oct 23, 2011 Comments(6)
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Oct 10, 2011 Comments(7)
Editors Note: This is a translated and edited version of an article that originally appeared in the Beijing News. The article reports the results of a recent public opinion survey, conducted both in China and Japan, on each population’s opinion ...... Read More>>
Oct 05, 2011 Comments(1)
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Sep 25, 2011
Editors Note: This article first appeared in the popular weekly Chinese magazine “Outlook”, and was later picked up by ifeng.com (among others) that used it as part of a special report series on the One Child Policy. Photo: adairjones On August ...... Read More>>
Sep 18, 2011 Comments(0)
Editors Note: This article is an op-ed written by Singapore professor Ji Yuan that first appeared in the Singapore paper Lianhe Zaobao. The author reflects on the seemingly contradictory nature of China's 30+ years of economic development and the country's ...... Read More>>
Sep 07, 2011 Comments(1)
Editors Note: This op-ed article was written by Wu Bingbing, an associate professor at Peking University, in the Arab language and culture department. The author uses the context of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and other recent changes in the Middle East to ...... Read More>>
Aug 18, 2011 Comments(0)
Photo: flickr.com I have lived in large cities and small Mid-Western towns in America, but they really cannot compare to living in a small city in China. I have spent my three years in China living in the same small city and I have realised that the local ...... Read More>>
Aug 17, 2011 Comments(0)
Editors note: This is a translated and edited version of an article that lists the “top ten” most stressful cities in China, and even though the original Chinese articles title doesn’t specifically mention it, these stress inducers are all ...... Read More>>
Aug 08, 2011 Comments(0)
After living in China for awhile the debate between zhende and jiade (true and false) gets to be an in joke. We buy electronics branded “Philpis”—jiade, fake. We go to the market and worry about whether our eggs or beef are zhende, real. ...... Read More>>
Aug 03, 2011 Comments(2)
Editors Note: This is a translated and edited version of an article from the Chinese website sina.com.cn. The article is the account of a journalist who, while reading through published reports dating back to 2003, realised that there seemed to be an ...... Read More>>
Jun 28, 2011 Comments(15)
Photo: ernop While foreigners are often a misunderstood bunch in China, we’re not immune to making assumptions and having prejudices of our own. Many foreigners harbour a lot of misconceptions about China and its people, from their lifestyle, to ...... Read More>>
Jun 27, 2011 Comments(2)
Editor’s note: This is a translated and edited blog post from caijing.com. The author is warning about the dangers of the Chinese people becoming too caught up in a feverish rush to always be number one in the fast developing economy. He argues that ...... Read More>>
Jun 17, 2011 Comments(6)
The Mandarin word for “naked” is the beautifully mellifluous “lu? t?” (裸体) which slides off the tongue and summons images of arty nudes (NSFW), and liberated naturalists frolicking on beaches. But being a nudist in China is far from...... Read More>>
Jun 15, 2011 Comments(0)
Editor’s Note: This article, translated from the Chinese magazine Vista expounds on a recent British article’s analysis of "Maoist management" compared to "Ford-style management." The author disagrees with the original ...... Read More>>
May 29, 2011 Comments(2)
Editor’s Note: For success-obsessed Chinese high school students, new school rankings are hugely important. As millions of Chinese all scramble to test into the country’s top universities, Tsinghua University’s fall from its golden ...... Read More>>
May 24, 2011 Comments(1)
.this_tab td tr{ padding-left:3px;} Editor’s Note: Nearly one million Chinese have over 10 million Yuan! As the gap between the country’s rich and poor widens, many Chinese people look enviously to these money-making gurus. This article, which ...... Read More>>
May 14, 2011 Comments(2)
Once while travelling in Guilin, I was approached by a Chinese gent of about 30 years of age, who held out his digital camera, looked at me and motioned for me to come over. I went to take the camera in order to take a photo of him and his friend. But he ...... Read More>>
May 04, 2011 Comments(13)
Editor’s Note: This article, written by Global Times journalist Peijuan Ji based on an interview with some China scholars in Singapore , examines the opinions of political science specialists from Singapore, a tiny but independent republic ruled by an ...... Read More>>
Apr 24, 2011 Comments(0)
Editor’s note: The following translated article from gcpnews.com delves into Chinese attitudes towards the importance of money vs. personal freedom and health. While the topic isn’t a new one, it has been reignited by the Chinese media after it ...... Read More>>
Apr 07, 2011 Comments(4)
Editor’s note: The following article consists of a selection of readers’ comments from a news and community website called teamliquid.com. In the comments section, readers discuss and debate whether to study in China or in Japan and what the ...... Read More>>
Apr 04, 2011 Comments(4)
Photo: puuikibeach In a land known for tea, more and more people are now looking for a cup of joe. Although originally introduced into this country in the late nineteenth century, coffee is just now experiencing a period of unprecedented consumption ...... Read More>>
Mar 26, 2011 Comments(6)
Photo: swisseduc.ch How would you kill these dogs? This question may seem gratuitous, even cruel, but it's posed with purpose for those of us living in China. Imagine yourself in charge of a base on the Antarctic. You are told you have to abandon the base, ...... Read More>>
Mar 22, 2011 Comments(2)
In the six years that I have been teaching English in China, I have found that there are four kinds of foreign teachers: the may fly, the quitter, the rebel and the puppet. Each one is slightly different, but all are intrinsically linked together. Which ...... Read More>>
Mar 21, 2011 Comments(1)
With the National People’s Congress recently taking place and the latest National Plan being promulgated, now’s a good time to reflect on some of China’s oft overlooked “shortcomings”. Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao may be setting ...... Read More>>
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