Are Chinese people too repressed when it comes to sex, or are they perhaps too carefree? Is it possible to be both? What would a society with healthy attitudes about sex look like to you, and how can Chinese society get there (or is it there already)?
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The sex double standard oppresses women, forcing them to inhibit themselves and hate their bodies. Even worse, it makes women lose feeling free and independent in their actions, they don’t dare to pursue happiness, and can only live numb and inhibited.
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Apparently. According to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, not everyone is content with blaming the WUC or the CCP for the riots in Xinjiang last month, so the Syrian government has introduced a new three-letter acronym to blame: USA. From the article (an editorial in the state-owned Al-Thawra): While the G-8 countries were...
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The following is part 2 of our translation of a blog post called “Conversations with an Old Comrade on the Eve of the 60th Anniversary of the PRC“. Part one is here. The China Media Project has already done a piece on this, which everyone should read, but we thought it would be valuable...
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...That old comrade passed away a few years ago, his long-cherished wish still just a wish. How can this be explained to the people, and to history? From the first split between the Nationalist and Communist Parties, the Nationalists suppressed us for 22 years, shutting out our publications, catching and killing our members, and...
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The movie Gattaca left a deep impression on me as a 1984-esque portrayal of a world where genes mean too much. According to this CNN article, in Chongqing, a "Children's Palace" was established to help parents decide how to raise their child based on genetic testing.
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Finally we get around to the real reason people come to ChinaGeeks: video of baozi fighting with nunchuks. And also rocking. There’s been some discussion lately about animation in China and whether or not it stands up to other asian competitors, so we thought this video of Super Baozi fighting Sushi Man (presumably, representing...
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You may already be aware of this. If you aren’t, we’d like to direct you to Evan Osnos’s blog, which does such a great job it would be pointless for us to bother rewriting the story at all. So we won’t, but please do click below: “Where is Xu Zhiyong?” Also of interest, perhaps,...
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You may have seen our recent post about how netizens at Anti-CNN have been up in arms about the misleading captions of recent New York Times web slideshows. Yesterday, they dove into the text of an actual article, pulling it apart for its’ so-called unfair coverage. Sentence by sentence, Anti-CNN questions the Times’s wording...
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Every now and then we try to lighten the mood around here with a little feature we like to call Art, Dammit. Today’s piece comes to us via ChinaSMACK, it’s a beautiful short animated film supposedly made domestically (although its high quality has made some netizens suspicious). Watch the film before reading our comments...
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