Yunnan officials are allowing a US Christian group to include abstinence-only teaching materials in their official sex ed curriculum. That is a terrible idea.
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Yunnan officials are allowing a US Christian group to include abstinence-only teaching materials in their official sex ed curriculum. That is a terrible idea.
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‘A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in,’ said Abraham Cowley, a seventeenth-century English poet. In a sense, this can be used to describe the politics in China: for the conscious social critics, there is so much to criticize, so many corrupted leaders, unreasonable policies,...
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The details of Tian Xi's arrest and detention come into focus.
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The word "freedom" is censored in the new World of Warcraft expansion in China. Chinese netizens respond by creating a new slang term.
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Tian Xi, who we've written about before, is being held by police again, and denied access to medications he needs to keep AIDS -- which he was infected with via a tainted blood transfusion in 1996 -- at bay.
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The other day, my fiancee asked me — rather out of the blue — if I was proud to be an American. The question caught me off guard. Pressed for an answer, I suggested that I was sometimes proud to be American, and by way of example noted the recent “terror mosque” controversy that’s...
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Our culture is often categorised as “shame culture”, and the issue of extra-marital sex is exactly where we should allow this culture to show its strength. We should create a strong public consensus, and disgrace those who have affairs and keep mistresses, and let those involved know that to have a mistress is shameful...
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Southern Weekend looks into whether or not the weather reports in China are reporting temperatures too low. (They are!)
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In the wake of the Zhouqu landslides, an argument breaks out in Chinese on an American website and quickly devolves into stupid bickering.
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This is a post by Zhang Wen regarding problems of Party membership. Translation World media outlets converged their reports on 11 CCP spokespeople that came together on June 30th. Public opinion was key here, since this after all does represent the 89th anniversary of the creation of the Chinese Communist Party. After ...
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