Inside the thriving but murky industry of egg donation in China
Commercial egg donation is strictly prohibited in China, according to regulations issued by the country’s Ministry of Public Health,…
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Oracle to lay off 1,600 staff in China
U.S. computer technology giant Oracle is shuttering its entire Research and Development Center in China (CDC). More than 900…
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Famous crosstalk artist under fire for crowdfunding abuse
Wú Shuài 吴帅, a Chinese comedian affiliated with the country’s most prestigious crosstalk performance group Déyúnshè 德云社, has caught…
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WeChat’s censors are not #HereForJingyao: Public accounts supporting woman accusing Richard Liu of rape are shut down
WeChat appears to be purging public accounts that have voiced support for Liu Jingyao, the University of Minnesota student…
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‘Avengers: Endgame’ is breaking Chinese box office records — and moviegoers
Say what you will about the Avengers franchise but it’s been an undeniably fun ride for its devoted fans,…
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Fan Bingbing returns after tax evasion scandal, inciting angry reactions from the public
Six months ago, after admitting to committing tax evasion, paying $70 million to avoid criminal charges, and begging…
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Construction worker loses job after exposing low-quality helmets
A migrant worker in Qingdao, Shandong Province, claims he was fired by his former employer and is having trouble…
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Chinese Corner: Zhili is the child modeling capital of China
Chinese Corner is Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet. The brutal reality of child…
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Women in China are becoming a powerful force in homebuying
Although the gender pay gap remains a persistent problem in China, where women on average earn 16 percent…
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No short skirt on campus? Chinese internet users are waging war on a university’s sexist dress code
A college in Jilin has enforced a dress code (in Chinese) that bans students from wearing skirts above…
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Weibo is taking down posts hashtagged #les, short for lesbian
Roughly a year after Sina Weibo introduced a controversial ban on gay-themed content, which sparked a massive outcry that…
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Real estate billionaire wins libel case over claim that his building has bad feng shui
SOHO China, one of China’s largest real estate companies, led by billionaire Pān Shíyì 潘石屹, has won (in…
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Chinese Corner: The rise of Shanghai’s ‘Vagrant Master’ and what it says about our internet
Chinese Corner is Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet. The internet is making people…
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Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands
In today’s dystopian news: An elite primary school in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province is making its students wear brainwave-reading headbands…
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Nanjing is using location-tracking smartwatches to spy on street cleaners
An extremely disturbing video, making rounds on the Chinese internet, shows street cleaners in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, being forced…
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