Was Shandong University arranging girlfriends for male foreign students?
On Chinese college campuses, one tradition that has been taken for…
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5 questions about Disney’s ‘Mulan’ trailer
Last weekend, Disney unveiled the first trailer for its much-anticipated live-action Mulan, which is set for a release later…
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Real estate tycoon Wang Zhenhua accused of raping underage girl
Chinese billionaire Wáng Zhènhuá 王振华, the chairman of real estate enterprise Future Land, has been detained by Shanghai police…
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Inside Emory’s crackdown on China-influenced research
On the morning of Tuesday, May 16, a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University in Atlanta arrived at his biomedical…
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Man storms stage, pours water on Baidu CEO Robin Li’s head
Baidu CEO Robin Li’s appearance at the company’s annual Create AI developer conference in Beijing on Wednesday morning was…
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The coming crackdown on ‘cannabis culture’ in China?
While growing numbers of American states and Canada have legalized or decriminalized marijuana, China has not budged on…
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From ‘Manhattan’ to ‘Manha Tun’: China’s war on ‘irregular’ place names has a history
Take a walk around any city in China, and you may…
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2019 summer movie censorship preview: What you won’t see in Chinese theaters
Summer is approaching, and that means a plethora of potential blockbusters are lining up to hit the big screen…
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Chinese Corner: Traditional Chinese medicine: Will facts ever sway believers?
Chinese Corner is Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet. Will facts ever sway TCM…
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Hainan orders local businesses to change their names into something less foreign
The civil affairs office in Hainan has launched (in Chinese) a cleanup campaign to purge local business names deemed…
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Chinese Corner: Baidu’s bad year, doping for gaokao, and the perfect sex doll
Chinese Corner is Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet. Baidu’s very bad year
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Sina Finance publishes remarkably sexist, ageist commentary, angers everyone
An article about Taiwanese supermodel Lín Zhìlíng 林志玲 and her recent marriage to Japanese pop star Akira, which was…
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Blind man in Changsha denied marriage license for failure to write perfect signature
A video of a visually impaired man being denied a marriage license due to his inability to sign registration…
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NetEase Kaola may have a counterfeit problem, and a Chinese journalist wants to hold it accountable
China has a long-standing problem of counterfeit goods, which have plagued all sorts of ecommerce platforms. One of the…
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Porn, AI, and slut-shaming: A Chinese programmer’s war on ‘promiscuous’ women
On May 27, Weibo user @将记忆深埋, a Germany-based Chinese entrepreneur, announced the completion of an AI-powered…
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