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Society

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Allegations that academics abused their grad students
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

During Qing Ming, or Tomb Sweeping Day, a woman named Li Youyou posted a short online account of her friend’s suicide 20 years earlier. Gao Yan, she said, had been a happy, conscientious undergraduate at Peking University in the ...

New rules on blood donations hit hospitals and surgeons
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

In early February, Pu Buzhen was due to start chemotherapy for a rare bone marrow disease known as aplastic anaemia. The 34 year-old had waited a year for treatment. Her family had sold cars and property to pay for it. But 10 minutes into the ...

New effort to take some of the pressure off school children
Mar 16, 2018 (WiC 401)

Hua Luogeng, one of the leading Chinese mathematicians of the last century, never finished middle school because of poverty and illness. But that didn’t stop the universities of Tsinghua or Cambridge asking the scholar to teach. Hua’s ...

Conscious coupling

Two dating apps merge
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

When a survey in 2015 revealed that more than half of Guangzhou’s female commuters had experienced some form of sexual harassment (“inappropriate touching”) on public transport, a handful of Chinese cities began reserving subway cars for ...

So what are China’s favourite dog breeds?

An acquired taste...
Feb 26, 2018 (WiC 398)

Chinese websites site periodically publish a list of the country’s top 10 favourite dogs. Amazingly Chinese breeds almost never feature. Four such lists from the last four years all include: Labradors, Golden Retrievers, Poodles and ...

Chinese dogs: an overview

We look at the histories of China’s main dog breeds
Feb 15, 2018 (WiC 398)

Recent studies indicate that dogs first split from wolves and evolved into Canis lupus familiaris in China. Most of the world’s oldest breeds are in fact Chinese – even if some aren’t globally recognised as such. Here is a list of ...

The darker side of China’s dog culture

Remember the the Yulin Dog Festival in Guangxi?
Feb 15, 2018 (WiC 398)

Four years ago when the Fédération Cynologique Internationale awarded the 2019 World Dog Show to Shanghai there was uproar from members of international kennel clubs – especially in Norway and Sweden. How could China – a country that ...

Till debt us do part

Are wives in China liable for their husband's debts?
Jan 26, 2018 (WiC 395)

There’s more than Terracotta Warriors in the massive mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (which was built in 246 BC). The man who unified the ancient Middle Kingdom also had his entire harem of wives and concubines – some inherited from the ...

The #MeToo movement struggles to take off in China
Jan 26, 2018 (WiC 395)

In 2004 Luo Xixi was studying for her PhD at a prestigious aeronautics institute in Beijing. She was happy and excited by her academic pursuit. She later alleged this happiness was destroyed when her supervisor Chen Xiaowu tried to rape her by ...

Why medical students are unwilling to pick paediatrics
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

“Our overworked doctors have fallen sick. We have suspended our service. We are not sure when we will reopen.” That was the sign on the door of the paediatrics department of a public hospital in Tianjin last week. The ward only had three ...

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