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Impressions of Japan

Posted on 2012-09-29 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. After anti-Japanese demonstrations fired off around China, this week’s digest proposes to take a … Continue reading →

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Nine out of ten high school students in Xiamen have bad eyesight

Posted on 2012-09-29 by Barry van Wyk

Kids in Xiamen are apparently some of the unhealthiest in China. As the Haixia Daobao (海峡导报) from Xiamen reports today, nine out of every ten children in Xiamen have eyesight problems, two out of ten are obese, and rates of malnutrition and tooth … Continue reading →

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“Most Chinese women don’t know how to use contraceptives”

Posted on 2012-09-27 by Barry van Wyk

The front of the City Lady (都市女报), a national newspaper focused on women’s issues, today makes the startling claim that most Chinese women don’t really know how to use contraception. Based on what it describes as the findings of a new investigation (the details … Continue reading →

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Everything under heaven is in chaos: China’s digital publishing market

Posted on 2012-09-27 by Laurence Harris

by Laurence Harris on September 27, 2012 Digital publishing has been around since the early days of the Internet in China: literary websites first appeared in the late 1990s. First accessed via desktop computers, users are now more likely to … Continue reading →

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Two Billion Eyes, the Story of CCTV: Q&A with author Ying Zhu

Posted on 2012-09-26 by Barry van Wyk

Ying Zhu is the author of a new book on China’s state-owned television network, China Central Television or CCTV. Two Billion Eyes – The Story of China Central Television is the story of CCTV as the personal stories of the people of CCTV which … Continue reading →

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Flag raising ceremony held on China’s first aircraft carrier

Posted on 2012-09-24 by Barry van Wyk

Various front pages in China today feature glowing reports of China’s first aircraft carrier on whose platform a flag raising ceremony was held yesterday. Yet the fact that it happened is just about everything we know for sure about the … Continue reading →

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Against national education – reflections on the Hong Kong hunger strike

Posted on 2012-09-21 by Julien Leyre

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. In the first week of September 2012, a group of high schools students from … Continue reading →

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Woman attempts suicide jump from fifth floor, gets stuck between fourth and third floors

Posted on 2012-09-20 by Barry van Wyk

Sometimes suicide attempts become somewhat comical. The front page of the Modern Express (现代快报) from Jiangsu province today features a graphically illustrated story of an attempted suicide jump from an apartment complex that got stuck in mid-air, literally. At around half-past ten on Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Jiangsu man invents ‘single player fitness and entertainment shuttlecock’

Posted on 2012-09-19 by Barry van Wyk

Have you ever had the problem of wanting to play badminton but no opponent was available? The front page of the Huaihai Evening News (淮海晚报) from Jiangsu province today reports that Wu Hongzhong (吴宏中) from Huai’an (淮安) has just obtained a patent for a type … Continue reading →

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Man in Wuhan falls off his bicycle, someone helps him

Posted on 2012-09-18 by Barry van Wyk

The front page of the Changjiang Daily (长江日报) from Wuhan in Hubei province today features an illustrated account of what should be an everyday act of kindness yet in China is by no means guaranteed: helping someone on the street. When a middle aged … Continue reading →

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