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Category Archives: Scholarship and education
Off to college, parents in tow
Why do parents take their grown children to university? Essays in Idleness (徒然草的小茶园) presents an anecdote.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged Beijing Youth Daily, college
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Problems with crazy characters
Can we name our kids ‘@’? A report from the ministry of education (中国教育部《中国语言生活状况报告》). Also, Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) on font sets.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged fonts, GAPP, Liu Binjie, names, typography
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Why corruption is not a product of the reform
Xu Youyu (徐友渔) writes for China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) about corruption in pre-reform China.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged China Newsweek, corruption, Xu Youyu, Yang Guoqing
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Kids’ questions about the paranormal
Han Song (韩松) relates 36 questions from Chinese middle-school students concerning parallel universes (重叠空间), ghosts, and the Bermuda Triangle (百慕大三角).
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged education, Han Song, paranormal
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Should students decide whether their classmates are poor?
China Youth Daily (中国青年报) reports that the Ministry of Education (教育部) wants college students to evaluate the economic circumstances of their classmates.
Posted in Newspapers, Scholarship and education
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Harmony means everyone gets a passing grade
Article from China Youth Daily (中国青年报) about a teacher punished for failing plagiarized papers.
Posted in Internet, Newspapers, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz
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Wu Si on the intractable problem of forced labor
Wu Si (吴思) talks about the history of slaves working in mines and kilns over the last few centuries in China.
Posted in Law, Magazines, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz
Tagged history, kilns, slaves, Southern Metropolis Weekly, Wu Si
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Controversy over a history text
Zhou Yumin (周育民) complains about errors in Essentials of Modern Chinese History (中国近现代史纲要).
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged history, textbooks
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Further developments in the case of the polite pronoun
More comments on 您 from Ding Qizhen (丁启阵) and Qian Shiming (钱世明).
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Media and Advertising, Scholarship and education
Tagged Ding Qizhen, language, Red Mansions, typography, Zhou Ling
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Bloggers trade insults over a polite pronoun
During the Red Mansions reality show, a contestant is scolded for using 您. He Dong (何东) defends, and is attacked by Lu Chuan (陆川).