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A cinema for the blind in Beijing

Posted on 2012-06-15 by Julien Leyre

This week’s 1510 Digest, a weekly English summary of essays and reportage published on the Chinese website My1510.cn: Cinema for the blind By Sergeant Xiaoman, June 11 2012 This post describes a community initiative in the Houhai area of Beijing: In … Continue reading →

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China’s everyday heroes take their lead from the CPC

Posted on 2012-06-14 by Allison Carol Goldman

The front page of the Beijing Daily today features the pictures of three people who have recently committed acts of heroism in China. The headline: “Learn from the most beautiful Chinese people – a model of our generation!” These three include: 1) … Continue reading →

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Pan Shiyi’s photo used to advertise sexual dysfunction treatment

Posted on 2012-06-13 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The advert pictured here is for Nanyang Xiehe Hospital in Nanyang, Henan province. The main headline in the center of the ad says: ‘Male sexual dysfunction – A new method of treating make sexual dysfunction us starting’. The man in … Continue reading →

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Kunming to start monitoring air quality

Posted on 2012-06-13 by Allison Carol Goldman

The front-page headline in today’s Spring City Evening News: “Kunming will begin measuring PM 2.5.” PM stands for “particulate matter.” According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), particles pose a health risk if they are less than 10 micrometers in diameter … Continue reading →

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Fake invoice firm gets busted in Zhejiang province

Posted on 2012-06-12 by Allison Carol Goldman

Today the Nanhu Evening News features the headline: “The largest underground tax-evasion scheme in the history of Jiaxing gets busted.” The story details how a firm was recently caught specializing in producing fake tax invoices (fapiao 发票) to aid in tax evasion and … Continue reading →

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China’s first woman in space

Posted on 2012-06-11 by Allison Carol Goldman

The Guizhou Economic Times today features a picture of a spaceship and two would-be astronauts, one of whom will become China’s first woman in space later this week. In the afternoon of Saturday, June 16, China will launch the Shenzhou No. 9 … Continue reading →

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‘This world is not Paradise – the death of Lin Jun’ — 1510 Digest

Posted on 2012-06-08 by Julien Leyre

This 1510 Digest is the first of a new weekly roundup of recent articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn. ’1510′ （yi wu yi shi 一五一十） is a Chinese idiom which means ‘to tell things objectively and honestly’. The site was founded by Phoenix … Continue reading →

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Gaokao essay questions: fun and easy!

Posted on 2012-06-08 by Allison Carol Goldman

The front page of todays’ Shenzhen Evening News features a smiling girl giving a thumbs-up.  She is a high school student about to start her second, and final day of test taking for the gaokao, China’s national university entrance exam. The headline reads: … Continue reading →

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Taking the train to the gaokao

Posted on 2012-06-07 by Allison Carol Goldman

The China Youth Daily is a commercial daily run by the Communist Youth League. Today’s cover story: “Taking the train to the gaokao.” The gaokao is China’s university entrance exam. It is offered once a year, on a single day, to students across the country, … Continue reading →

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Northern Girls: interview with author Sheng Keyi

Posted on 2012-06-07 by Allison Carol Goldman

Qian Xiaohong is a young woman from a village in Hunan who went to the boomtown of Shenzhen in the 1990s in search of work. She is bold and optimistic, if sometimes a little naïve, and has short black hair … Continue reading →

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