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Discount marriage ceremonies boom
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

Love may be priceless, but getting married surely isn’t. In a slumping economy, many couples in China have chosen to tie the knot on a shoestring. For example, this year over 30 couples have registered to be married at the 12th Annual Group ...

New book causes furore
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

As book titles go, it is certainly catchy. But what is Unhappy China about? From the title one might imagine a clinically depressed nation in need of prozac. Indeed, according to an estimate by Zhang Mingyuan, director of the Shanghai Mental ...

China’s angry youth get online
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

Cyber conflict is all the rage, it seems. The row over the Pentagon’s report on China’s military capacity (including electronic warfare) rumbles on. But amongst China’s ordinary netizens, the squabbling is much more frenetic. The nation’s ...

Why firemen are China’s most trusted folk
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

Public trust, once lost, is difficult to regain again (as Richard Nixon discovered). In China, public trust may be sinking to a new low, thanks to a slew of food safety scandals, ongoing frustration about corruption, and continuing controversy ...

Chickens live high life in luxury villas
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

In a tale that throws dramatic light on the state of China’s luxury real estate market, four villas in Guangzhou have been turned into a henhouse. Like many of the more colourful stories coming out of China, the situation came to wider ...

Where have all the rural graduates gone?
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

According to Confucius: “If a son is uneducated, the father is to blame.” But what responsibility does the grandfather hold? A remark by Wen Jiabao – who is affectionately nicknamed ‘Grandpa Wen’ – has triggered some ...

Who needs Disneyland when you have Monkey Kingdom?
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

I did not issue a fatwa to kill Mickey Mouse,” complained Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid a couple of years ago. The Syrian cleric was anxious to clarify that he had been preaching against mice in general, and not threatening Mickey in ...

Mandarin starts to go global
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

Have you ever considered how confusing it is to students of the English language students that the place you play golf – a golf club – is the same as the thing you hit the ball with – a golf club. Evidently, English, with its eccentric ...

Did anyone say ‘double standards’?
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

The most conspicuous evidence of China’s sexist culture is the ratio of boys born versus girls. Thanks to the one-child policy and a traditional preference for boys, the world’s most populous nation now has the world’s largest gender ...

Mao photo provokes online debate
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of communist China. To commemorate the nation’s founding, the government has planned a celebration bonanza that will rival the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But amid the ...

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New book causes furore Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9) As book titles go, it is certainly catchy. But what is Unhappy China about? From the title one might imagine a clinically depressed nation in need of prozac. Indeed, according to an estimate by Zhang Mingyuan, director of the Shanghai Mental ...

Where have all the rural graduates gone? Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7) According to Confucius: “If a son is uneducated, the father is to blame.” But what responsibility does the grandfather hold? A remark by Wen Jiabao – who is affectionately nicknamed ‘Grandpa Wen’ – has triggered some ...

Mandarin starts to go global Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7) Have you ever considered how confusing it is to students of the English language students that the place you play golf – a golf club – is the same as the thing you hit the ball with – a golf club. Evidently, English, with its eccentric ...

Mao photo provokes online debate Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6) This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of communist China. To commemorate the nation’s founding, the government has planned a celebration bonanza that will rival the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But amid the ...

New book causes furore
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

As book titles go, it is certainly catchy. But what is Unhappy China about? From the title one might imagine a clinically depressed nation in need of prozac. Indeed, according to an estimate by Zhang Mingyuan, director of the Shanghai Mental ...

Where have all the rural graduates gone?
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

According to Confucius: “If a son is uneducated, the father is to blame.” But what responsibility does the grandfather hold? A remark by Wen Jiabao – who is affectionately nicknamed ‘Grandpa Wen’ – has triggered some ...

Mandarin starts to go global
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

Have you ever considered how confusing it is to students of the English language students that the place you play golf – a golf club – is the same as the thing you hit the ball with – a golf club. Evidently, English, with its eccentric ...