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The life of other people

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest proposes three personal reflections on urban life in contemporary China. All three … Continue reading

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Advice for friends and family of Chinese students abroad

This is the latest posting on Danwei in a series about Chinese school life. It’s a translation of a popular posting on the social network Renren. Other articles in the series include Confessions of a Chinese graduate, Chinese students living in fear in the … Continue reading

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Notes from a Chinese student in the USA

Author Eunice Hu has just completed her first year of study in the United States. Rich kids with bad grades! Spoiled students who can’t face the college entrance examination! These are the labels that are affixed to people like us. … Continue reading

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Study abroad websites for Chinese students

Below is a list of four popular websites that Chinese students use to research, plan and comment on studying abroad. This list is a companion to the article Chinese students living in fear in the USA. Taisha  Information and forums on … Continue reading

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Opening the door to American universities with lies

There’s a growing perception that American universities are admitting Chinese students based on fraudulent applications. How big is this problem, and who is responsible for it? Tim Hathaway investigated the problem for the Southern Weekly, and this is what he found: … Continue reading

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Kuang Kuang and the 38th Parallel

Here is another episode of Kuang Kuang’s Diary, featuring Kuang Kuang, the primary school boy with a permanent bloody nose, and his girlfriend Xiao Hong. This episode is called The 38th Parallel, a reference to the border between North and South … Continue reading

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Chinese students and a foreign agony uncle

Ralph Jennings is a journalist who has contributed advice columns to the Beijing-based 21st Centurynewspaper since 2000. I was working at the China Daily eleven years ago. One day, during an editing shift,  a colleague suddenly popped up beside my desk and said the … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Chinese graduate

An essay by Danwei staff writer Eric Mu.  When I was a kid, university graduates were as rare as unicorns, now they are more like popcorn: cheap and plentiful. No big surprise, considering there are millions of fresh ones every … Continue reading

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Blowing up the school

Early this year, an animation showing a group of bunnies oppressed by tigers and then rising up in rebellion became an overnight hit in China, soon making it to international TV news, including Australia’s ABC. The video was part of an … Continue reading

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The “headline party” does a school stampede

A stairwell stampede at a school in Aksu City, Xinjiang, is covered in some very different ways.

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