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Holy Goddesses of China Trampling Men, and Singing Too
The term shengnu has been around for a while. It first appeared online and was listed as one of the 171 new words of 2007 by the Ministry of Education in China. Literally, shengnu means “leftover...
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Hot Mircroblog Topic: IMF Head Strauss-Kahn’s Arrest; Comments Allude to...
Just a little more than an hour after IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on sexual assault charges, news and comments about this incident are circulated wildly on t.sohu.com, a...
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Naked Marriage: What’s Real?
Traditionally, marriage is an important mark of maturity and accomplishment for Chinese. Marriage, to many Chinese, doesn’t only requires “love,” a more or less abstract concept, but other conditions...
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Love Comes with a Price Tag, and a Return Policy Too: Controversy over New...
“Marriage Law Interpretations, the Third Edition,” (Interpretations) recently issued by the Supreme Court and effective since August 13, 2011, is perhaps the most controversial Marriage Law...
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Surviving the Chinese New Year
For most Chinese, the week-long Chinese New Year vacation has just ended. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have returned from their parents’ homes back to where they work or go to school, accomplishing,...
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More Than Skin Deep: Chinese Youth Increasingly Favor Plastic Surgery
To us Chinese, “face” (mianzi, 面子) is something we will fight to death to preserve. “Giving face” (geimianzi, 给面子), or showing respect, is expected in any social interaction. On the other hand, “losing...
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Japanese Porn Idol Conquers China
Every time when I tell my friends in U.S. that China does not have a pornography industry–not legally at least–they appear to be shocked. It seems that the fact that Chinese does not have universal...
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Nine Months in Prison, for Posing as a Sexy “Police Flower” on Weibo?
We live in a world that’s anything but shy of conflicts. That’s why I’m constantly amazed by how much we citizens of the world share many similarities in our taste in uniforms. We love babes in police...
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