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Badiucao (巴丢草): China’s House of Cards

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Comparison of the language used by western media to describe last saturday’s Kunming attack (29 dead, 140 injured) and the London attack of may 2013 (1 dead, 2 injured). Kunming on the left, London on the right.

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China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed: How Chinese Oligarchs Quietly Parked Up To $4 Trillion In The Caribbean

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Cui Jian Live at Tiananmen square, May 20 1989

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What Baidu Maps can tell you about China

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Yin Zhaoyang

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At first, the experience was "awkward, my face and ears turned red and my heart skipped a beat", Liu Xiaozhen, a 70-year-old member of the investigative team, said as he recalled his first day on the job. Liu is a member of the Hunan provincial "eliminate pornography and illegal publications" office. Such departments exist throughout the mainland, and because of their indecorous duties, officials usually keep quiet about their work. Liu is a long-time professional. In 2008, he received a national award of excellence for writing an essay about his profession. He and three colleagues have the task of looking through the 700 DVDs confiscated in April. They have to do it within a week and then classify them as either "pornographic", "obscene" and "others", he said. The distinction will help the public prosecution on what charges to press against those arrested in the bust. "You have to watch even if you don't want to watch," Liu said in the report. "But when you're in this job, you have to watch very closely, and once you've watched, you classify." He could not be reached in his office for comment on Monday.

'You have to watch it even if you don't want to,' says senior pornography censor in China

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Luna Lee - Voodoo Chile Gayageum Version

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"Chinese consumers spend the least time with traditional media, which accounts for just 35% of their media time. Games consoles, online PC and online mobile account for the rest of the 9.43 media hours they consume each day"

  Daily Media Consumption – Traditional vs. Digital

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Everyone knows that, compared with when Bakhtin and Benjamin were still alive, the current circumstances of Chinese society are more complicated. This complexity is more than my novelist colleagues in the west can imagine. We can say wholeheartedly that whatever crime and punishment Bakhtin saw in Dostoyevsky's novels is ubiquitous in China, while at the same time the influence of mass media now wholly permeates people's lives. Chinese people who live in the remote countryside receive information from the media practically at the same time as those living in Beijing, London or New York. Censorship in publishing and the media has, by and large, no effect on the reception of information. Chinese society has become a combination of premodern, modern, and postmodern societies; it's just like a sandwich.

Li Er: the future of the novel in China

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Yi Fan | 祎璠

A typical night market with street vendors offering vegetables, meats, or little gadgets. 

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The sexual revolution in China goes largely unnoticed and is rarely talked about, yet it’s in full swing. I walked out of the hotel, flabbergasted. Would budget hotels in China be so prosperous without the sexual revolution? Surely not. A manager once told me that his hotels would be packed during the weekends. But, he added, not with business travelers, but with people who needed a place to spice up their sex life. Those who frequent budget hotels can be roughly divided into four categories, he told me. Young unmarried couples unable to afford their own apartments, as housing prices have soared in the past few years. They live mostly in shared apartments or with their parents. High end hotels are too pricy, so they consummate their love in low-cost surroundings. Budget hotels also accommodate extramarital affairs where meeting at home is not an option. Budget hotels don’t pry into the clients’ privacy and the anonymous setting may also offer an extra thrill and spice up the encounters. One night stands often take place in budget hotels as well. People hook up on dating-sites for sex but are unwilling to bring strangers back home. There have been plenty of reports of online dating scammers, and ironically, budget hotels have become a safer place to date strangers. The last category is sex workers for whom a budget hotel is a convenient place of business.

Sex pays for China’s budget hotels

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But it is also true that the United States allowed China to rise because it was so supremely self-confident that it would always remain on top. China's benign rise was a result of American neglect, not a result of any long-term strategy. China acted strategically; America did not. After the 9/11 attacks, for instance, the United States focused on the Middle East instead of the rise of China, leading Hong Kong journalist Frank Ching to write, "The fact is, it's not going too far to say that China owes a huge debt of gratitude to Osama bin Laden."

While America Slept

How the United States botched China's rise.

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© Rony | 莫安琦（前达也）

Neighbors & chatters, Shanghai 2012.

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Harlem Shake explodes in China

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二号线 Line 2

Gif portraits from beijing metro

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