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Looking for a Needle in a Haystack

On weekends in the XuanWu Lake Park in Nanjing, Chinese parents hang placards as helper of finding suitable spouses for their unmarried children. Most of the advertisements center around salary, car and apartment. This kind of match-making corner is...

What is the Future of Foreign NGOs in China?

A Non-Governmental Organisation (“NGO”) is an entity that is neither a part of government nor a conventional for- profit business. Usually set up by citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations, businesses, or private people for different...

Let’s Get Physical (2) Running and Baijiu

What do running and baijiu have in common? “Oh no...no, I can’t run see... It’s my *insert body part of choice*” “OOOOhhh running. Yeah. No. I don’t do that. it makes me really out of breath.” “i never run...

New Wave of Entrepreneurship

While a spring thunderstorm in the night revitalized the sleeping world, Qian Yafeng and his team were shivering in the cold, pushing a broken-down motor tricycle full of parcels towards a distant dorm. It was 18th March, the first...

Losing My Timidity; Returnees’ Triumph over Adversity

When Liu Qiao got off the plane that landed at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport after 28 hours’ flying, it was sprinkling. Liu took a deep breath, and then realized a faint smell of moist mud and grass. This is the...

Young Mothers

In Chinese tradition, men are expected to be breadwinners, while women rear family`s children. Even through women may also earn a certain part of the family income, their career was been seen as secondary. But now the tradition has...

Conquering Loneliness & the Gaokao

A Friday comes again, parents and cars crowed in front of Girls’ Dormitory to pick up their children for a fancy weekend. Tao Lizhu turns around into the room from balcony and packs the school bags, planning to spend...

New National Security Law

China adopted its new National Security Law on July 1st 2015. It replaces the Counterespionage Law, which took effect in 1993, and seeks to put in place systems to manage laws and regulations, finance, materials, science and technology,...

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Baby on Board in High Speed Train Emergency Delivered by Urologist into Nanjing

Mid-journey between Shanghai and Nanjing, a routine high-speed train service turned into an improvised delivery room, when a lady...

Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

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