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Category Archives: Newspapers
Chang Ping on how “Internet addiction disorder” is a joke
On July 16 Chang Ping (also known as Zhang Ping), who used to be the deputy editor of the Southern Metropolis Weekly wrote an opinion piece in Southern Metropolis Daily questioning whether “internet addiction” could even be seen as an illness. Furthermore, he expresses the idea that some organizations have taken Ivan Goldberg’s original joke too far.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Chang Ping, internet addiction disorder, Southern Metropolis Daily
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Cultural heritage and backyard iron smelting
A large cluster of backyard furnaces from the Great Leap Forward is discovered in Gansu.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged @altcat, backyard furnaces, cultural heritage, cultural relics, Gansu, Great Leap Forward, Lanzhou Morning Post, Wu Zuolai
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“I want a face-to-face dispute, but I know it’s useless”
“But he only said it was rubbish and didn’t even look at it carefully. I retorted that it’s not rubbish.”
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Letters to a foreign agony uncle
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Botswana’s Chinese weekly, The Oriental Post
The Oriental Post (华侨周报) launches in Botswana. It’s a weekly, and it’s not the first Chinese-language paper in Africa
Posted in China and Africa, Newspapers
Tagged Botswana, newspapers, People's Daily, shoddy journalism, The Oriental Post
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The botany professor who wants to give Deng Yujiao a degree
In yesterday’s Southern Metropolis Daily, blogger Xifeng wrote in to respond to the news that Fu Dezhi (傅德志) professor at the Chinese Academy of Science, and famous for championing that the “South China tiger” was fake, has declared that: “I am definitely taking in this [Deng Yujiao] graduate student!”
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Deng Yujiao, South China Tiger, Southern Metropolis Daily
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Reporting in Xinjiang
Newspaper websites in Xinjiang are unreachable from Beijing. But reporting is still going on.
“What do you think about the Green Dam?” asks HKU admissions
An editor from Henan, Yue Jianguo, wrote in to the Beijing Youth Daily to comment on the questions asked by Hong Kong universities － in this case the University of Hong Kong － to their mainland applicants, which occurred over the weekend.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged Beijing Youth Daily, University of Hong Kong
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Too many coincidences for one news headline
Two lottery players buy identical 5-million-yuan winning tickets at the exact same second. A newspaper reports that they share the same height, weight, and blood type, too.
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged lottery, Modern Evening Times, Untrustworthy News
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Top gunner: Drop the weapon?
Letters from Chinese students to a foreign agony uncle in a a state-owned English newspaper （Part VI).
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged exams, Letters to a foreign agony uncle, school
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It only matters what the machine thinks: getting diagnosed in a Chinese hospital
On July 20 The Beijing News printed a reader comment about the kind of medical service they received when they paid a visit to the ophthalmologist.
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