Tag Archives: Shenzhen

There’s a void called the countryside – visions of dying village 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. Migrant workers tend to be presented as an anonymous mass, and thought of either as … Continue reading

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Welcome to Black Dragon River (a.k.a the Stinking Sewer)

There is a little stretch of river in the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province where black water meets an endless stream of human filth. The place apparently doesn’t have a name, but some online commentators have referred to it … Continue reading

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How to have a “convenient” Spring Festival transport rush

“It must be said, says Shenzhen Evening News today, “that going home for Spring Festival is a deeply ingrained desire of all Chinese people.” That’s to say, all of 1.3 billion Chinese people. Hence the annual Spring Festival rush is a migration … Continue reading

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Pandemonium on China’s stock market

There’s pandemonium on China’s newspaper front pages today: the stock market is falling even faster than the sliding temperatures. So there’s graphics of bears and plunging arrows galore. The Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) from Guangdong chose today to dispense with any graphics … Continue reading

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Northern Girls: interview with author Sheng Keyi

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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Wang Yang’s not lying low

The Chongqing press has stopped singing red and striking black, and former city boss Bo Xilai is unlikely to grace its newspaper front pages again. But Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang is not lying low. Bo’s state-led, neo-Maoist ‘Chongqing Model’ … Continue reading

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104-year-old buddhist monk celebrates birthday in Shenzhen

A centenarian buddhist monk’s birthday drew large number of worshipers to Shenzhen’s Hongfa Temple, today’s Daily Sunshine reports.

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Wen Jiabao’s Shenzhen speech and political reform in China

A podcast about the implications for political reform of Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech in Shenzhen.

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Nigerian ping pong player cleans up in Shenzhen

A visiting Nigerian table tennis player has been on a roll, beating most of the local players.

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Shenzhen ex-cop directs traffic during snow, called “most handsome”

Shenzhen’s Daily Sunshine (晶报) has been reporting on an ex-cop, Hu Di (胡堤), who on his journey from Shenzhen to Wuhan, got off a bus to conduct traffic during a bad jam. But Hu, “the most handsome cop” in Shenzhen, has already been transferred to another, non-police related department.

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