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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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Sexual harassment Shenzhen official in trouble on the Internet, and with the cops

A fat government official harasses an 11-year-old girl in a restaurant in Shezhen, and the Chinese Internet hunts him down.

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For better government, read fewer books

For World Book and Copyright Day, Chinese science fiction author and journalist Han Song writes that Chinese officials need to read less.

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