Category Archives: Guest Contributor

Leftover women

A review of 剩女郎, aka ‘Pride and Prejudice 2008.’

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Southern Daily: 9 out of 10 new mothers don’t have enough breast milk

In China there is a somewhat long-standing misunderstanding, which is that after childbirth women are too tired to breast feed straight away.

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Stop drugs, bombs and journalists

Olympic volunteers on the watch for dangerous objects and people.

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The CCTV Olympic extravaganza

An essay about CCTV’s live Olympic extravaganza.

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When there were only a billion

In 1982, Graham Earnshaw noted that the population of China topped 1 billion people.

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In Wang Shuo’s No Man’s Land

Geremie Barme addresses Wang Shuo’s 千万别把我当人.

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Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay

This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming’.

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Long Hair Drama, by Zhang Lijia

An except from Zhang Lijia’s book ‘Socialism is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China’.

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Bomb, Book and Compass book review

We just ploughed through Simon Winchester’s new ‘Bomb, Book and Compass – Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China’ – boy, do we want our money back!

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The Securolympics: record breaking security

While athletes from around the globe make use of years of intense training at August’s Olympics, Beijing’s law enforcement will be hoping their own preparations will pay off too. According to a report by the U.S. trade group Security Industry Association, China spent approximately USD 6.2 billion on security between 2004 and 2007. With all its new toys and rigorously trained personnel, Beijing’s security teams should be well prepared to beat records at their own set of Olympic events.

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