Jiayun was born in Shanghai, where she spent her first 20 years and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Fudan University. Interested in writing for a global audience, she attended the NYU Graduate School of Journalism for its Global & Joint Program Studies, which allowed her to pursue a journalism career along with her interest in international relations. She has previously interned for Sixth Tone and Shanghai Daily.
The founder of Yuzhang Academy, a “Confucian reform school” that purportedly treats internet addiction, has been sentenced to almost three years behind bars on charges of unlawful restraint, after dozens of former students came forward accusing the institution of using corporal punishment and torture to “cure” them.
More than a year after she first began her legal fight, a transgender woman in Beijing has won her case against Chinese ecommerce platform Dangdang after the company fired her when she took a leave of absence for her gender confirmation surgery.
The Wild Cooperative 野外合作社, a four-piece indie rock band in Nanjing, announced today that it had fired guitarist Liú Yáo 刘遥, one of its founding members, following a host of his Weibo posts containing sexually offensive remarks about underage girls.
After comparing a number of math papers published by Chinese authors, an independent journalist discovered that 65 of them were products of a “paper mill,” which sold the papers to about 77 Chinese clients from 43 institutions.
The complaint that landed the show in trouble was made by an anonymous viewer on May 22. In a note submitted to content regulators in Hunan, the viewer said the series had “problematic” values, and that the main characters set a bad example for kids because they “dyed their hair bright colors,” “wore loud clothes,” and “did costume changes onstage.”
The chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Wú Zūnyǒu 吴尊友, said on Monday that he was optimistic that Beijing would have zero new infections of COVID-19 in roughly a week, as authorities continued to conduct citywide testing and cut chains of local transmission.
In theory, the gaokao (高考 gāokǎo), China’s nationwide college entrance examination, is built on fairness and transparency. It’s supposed to be China’s greatest equalizer: For students from low-income families in rural areas, excelling at the gaokao and going to a university is almost the only reliable pathway for upward mobility. But this widespread belief has been called into question in recent weeks after allegations emerged that a host of children from wealthy and well-connected families in Shandong Province had stolen identities of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and attended their dream schools.
When COVID-19 cases hit record highs in China earlier this year, the National Health Commission issued a plan encouraging doctors across the country to increase their use of traditional Chinese medicine. Now, as Beijing fights a reemergence of COVID-19 infections — after almost two months without a local case — the Chinese capital is suggesting a new string of TCM-based formulas designed to treat the disease.
The eastern city of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, has become the first Chinese city to roll out a program that allows soon-to-be married couples to check, before tying the knot, if their partners have a history of domestic violence.
Two days after he was found guilty of molesting a nine-year-old girl, Chinese real estate billionaire Wáng Zhènhuá 王振华 has already started working on his appeal.