Stories about China from October, 2011
Android Market Blocked in China
Sunny Ye from Techrice introduces some alternatives to deal with the blocking of Android Market in China.
China’s famous English teacher beats his American wife
Olivia from ChinaHush translated a scandal exposed through Weibo concerning China's famous “crazy English” teacher Li Yang beating up his American wife at home.
China: Support Occupy Wall Street Movement
In Zhengzhou, a city in Henan province, Chinese citizens rallied to support occupy wall street movement in the U.S. (via ChinaHush)
China: The Runaway Bosses of Wenzhou City
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.
China: Zhengzhou Sex Culture Festival
ChinaSMACK translated Chinese netizens’ reactions on the Zhengzhou Sex Culture Festival.
Dreamwork China: The Workers of Foxconn
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
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?
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: Tourist Attractions during the National Day Holiday
Ministry of Tofu collects a set of photos showing what tourist attractions looks like during the National Day Holiday week.
China: What Lu Xun can teach us about modern-day China?
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.