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Selfless teacher leaves career in the city for “dream job” teaching rural kids

When Peng Jun (彭军) graduated in 2011, he was all set for a career in the city and stepping up the ladder of social progress. Yet at a time when the norm is to seek to build your own fortune … Continue reading

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How to build a good public life?

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest brings together two recent pieces which, in different ways, show the influence … Continue reading

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The year of the breastfeeding flash mob in China – a father’s account

This has been the year of the flash mob in China, the breastfeeding flash mob to be exact. In May, August and September of this year, Chinese mothers bared their breasts in public to help galvanize a tiny yet growing … Continue reading

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Children chained to a wall by parents working at Guangzhou construction site

What do you do when you have two children but no-one to look after them and not enough money to put them in kindergarten? The New Express Daily (新快报) from Guangdong has a picture on its front page today showing what happened … Continue reading

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

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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Against national education – reflections on the Hong Kong hunger strike

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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In Wuhan, Huazhong University president encourages students with ‘free development’

“Fellow students, I, like you, desire to develop freely (自由发展)!” The front page of the Changjiang Daily(长江日报) from Wuhan in Hubei province today features the story of an emotional speech delivered by the president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) to the new … Continue reading

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Education and critical thinking

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. This week’s post proposes to look at three recent articles exploring the connection between … Continue reading

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No ‘puppy love’ allowed for outstanding students at Chongqing school

Chinese schools opened again yesterday after the summer holiday, yet as the front page of the Chongqing Shangbao (重庆商报) reports today, when high school students at the Bashu (巴蜀) Middle School in Chongqing arrived for class yesterday, they were confronted with an unexpected … Continue reading

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Spurned mothers in desperate, suicidal stand-off for their kids’ education

The front page of City Lady (都市女报), a newspaper focused on women’s issues published in Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东) province, today features two stories on two controversial issues related to education. The front page displays three images and the story of an incident that occurred … Continue reading

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