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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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Chinese students living in fear in the USA

“You own a BMW, you poor little rich kid.” “They deserved to die.” These were two comments from Chinese Internet users responding to the murder of two Chinese students at University of Southern California in April this year. The students … Continue reading

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Teen digital habits in Beijing and Palo Alto

In August and September 2011, Danwei worked with the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) on a survey of the digital and media habits of high school students born in 1993 and 1994. The results were presented … 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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Universities and the media: Friends or enemies?

College students are difficult to interview, The Beijing News reporter Yang Wanguo discovers.

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Police campaign against knives on campus

The Beijing police and education authorities initiate action to confiscate illegal weapons carried by students and crack down knife vendors around schools and universities starting today

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