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Narrow Dwellings: a TV series that slipped through SARFT’s guidelines

The series has drawn a lot of criticism as well as recommendation. The former for its poor script and one dimensional characters, and the latter for its social commentary, which focuses on people of different social statuses, nailhouses, corrupt officials and mistresses, all wrapped up in the setting of a consumerist metropolis. There are edited versions of Narrow Dwellings on Youku and broadcast on TV, and lines that have been deleted for its “bone-baring” (露骨) directness.

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Marriage and money in Wuhan

Matchmaking agencies make up 25% of responses to personals ads.

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Chinese filmmakers withdraw from Melbourne movie festival

Yangcheng Evening News: Three Chinese filmmakers have withdrawn their movies from the 58th Melbourne International Film Festival.

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University vice president found guilty of plagiarism

Huang Qing, vice president of Southwest Jiaotong University, was found guilty of plagiarism and stripped of his doctoral degree

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Lavish rewards for whistle blowers

The provincial government of Hunan is offering a cash reward of up to 10% of the seized illicit proceeds to citizens who expose corruption

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70 kph, indifference, and the rule of law

He Dong responds to the Hangzhou 70kph case, in which a driver who struck and killed a college student was said by police to have been travelling far slower than many people believed.

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Two crooked Chinese bank officials convicted in the US

Two former managers of a branch of the Bank of China in Kaiping, Guangdong Province, were sentenced to 25 and 22 years by a US District Court in Nevada.

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Harnessing human search engines for government use

There’s a ‘human flesh search engine’ effort on to uncover the personal data of two reporters who wrote unflattering things about a local government construction project in Jiangsu.

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Official fired over pricey cigarettes

Zhou Jiugeng gets fired after public condemnation of his high-priced cigarettes.

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Website tracks corrupt cadres under investigation

A website tracking corrupt officials under investigation.

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