· October, 2011

Stories about China from October, 2011

China: The Runaway Bosses of Wenzhou City

  6 October 2011

More than 26 entrepreneurs from China's industrial city of Wenzhou have fled the country after being unable to pay debts illegally lent to them by government officials. The city's officials are pleading with the central government for help, but Chinese netizens are not sympathetic to the Wenzhou bosses.

Dreamwork China: The Workers of Foxconn

  6 October 2011

China Digital Times introduces a documentary, Dreamwork China, on the lives and dreams of the Foxconn workers who make (authentic) Apple products (among others) at their massive complex in Shenzhen.

China: The Cost of Space Ambition

  4 October 2011

China's launch of an unmanned space station last week, says the editor of a Tokyo-based newspaper for Chinese expats, has given Japan reason to step up its contribution to the universal endeavor of space exploration - if it can afford it.

China: Student Interns Or Cheap Labourers?

  4 October 2011

To tackle the labour shortage emerging in China, the government has started encouraging privately run institutes to expand vocational schools. Student labourers enrolled in the so-called “factory in front, school at the back” model have been sharing their grievances online.

China: What Lu Xun can teach us about modern-day China?

  3 October 2011

Andy Yee translated a section of an imaginary dialogue on whether China is any better than it was 100 years ago between newspaper editor Pan Caifu and prominent Chinese modern thinker and literature founder Lu Xun in Lu Xun's 130th birth anniversary on September 25, 2011.

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