Category Archives: Newspapers

Imperfect day for a perfectionist

Here’s where members of China’s only-child generation start paying dues. Children smothered in the formative years by parental compliments imagine it’s impossible to do serious wrong or to fail against public perception. Then they go off to a faraway college where no one really cares. Elizabeth, who I’d guess grew up sibling-free, explains.

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No newspapers

No newspapers: Peking University journalism students get their news online.

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Corruption starts in the classroom

When is the top student in a Chinese university class not the top student? When a second-tier student outsmarts No. 1 by brown-nosing scholarship committees or paying them off. What’s the point of studying to be No. 1? You get a lesson in real life in China. Wenwen tells this classic story. The best advice: her own concluding words.

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White space carries unintended meaning in a print advert

Intel runs an ad with lots of whitespace. The immediate reaction among media-savvy readers: censorship!

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AV actress entices Chinese netizens to go on Twitter

AOI Sora (also known as Sola Aoi) is a Japanese AV actress famous for her large breasts. She is also an award-winning actress who has appeared on mainstream Japanese TV as well as a Thai film.

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Now that’s how to print an apology

The Chongqing Times prints a front-page apology to the Chinese Writers’ Association, promising to do a better job in the future of following Marxist journalism theories and implementing the ideas of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

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Can of Cold Blue Crush with extra ice

An introverted personality can be a Chinese undergrad’s worst classmate. It follows only-child students to college from homes where parents discourage conversation and from middle schools where teachers forbid the same. In college they suddenly want dates but don’t know where to start. Some guys dump ice on the hots for a girl:

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Fear of being an informed fool

Chinese college students who show for lectures, sit in the front rows and finish their homework naturally know the answers to questions raised in class. But they are so afraid of the humiliation that would follow from a wrong answer, or from unpolished delivery of the right one, that they freeze up when given chances to shine.

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Global Times, China World, South Beauty and Zhang Ziyi

Scandal sheet The Global Times recently offended and delighted different groups of people in Beijing with an advice column by the pseudonymous Alessandro, who answered a question from a “reader” named S. Natch: “If unused for a long time, can … Continue reading

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Global Times declares victory over color revolutions

The Global Times’ Chinese edition enjoys the defeat of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution”.

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