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Village Chief Resigns Over Part Time Feng Shui Work
A village chief in a poor area of rural Sichuan province in southwestern China has resigned after coming under fire from his superiors for moonlighting as a feng shui master, despite the fact that he...
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Why Are BRICS Countries Hosting All the Global Events?
Despite the sound and the fury that marked the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics, the first match of the 31st Summer Games went off without a hitch last Wednesday. The women’s football teams from the...
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Guizhou Axes Anti-Graft Tool Used as Corruption Loophole
Guizhou province in southwestern China is closing its “integrity and discipline account,” long abused by officials as a tool to hide corruption, local newspaper Guizhou Metropolis Daily reported on...
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China Struggles to Reform Its Mass Organizations
This is the first installment of an ongoing series that will explore the current reforms of mass organizations in China. In the first half of 2016, the phrase “Communist Youth League reform” often...
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Entrepreneur Claims Police Detention ‘Illegal’
A Chinese businessman-official is suing police for 130 million yuan ($19.6 million) claiming he was detained for almost two weeks because of a personal vendetta. Hu Xufeng, 36, is the CEO of a...
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How China’s Provinces Fight One Another for Olympic Glory
Imagine if Michael Phelps returned to the United States after the Rio Games, only to find the glory of his Olympics gold split between Maryland and Michigan. This thought may seem strange on surface...
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Villager’s 87th Birthday Party Leads to Anti-Corruption Fine
After Cao Rencheng hosted a birthday party for his 87-year-old mother, he was promptly fined by the local village chief, who said the banquet was in violation of an anti-corruption rule, newspaper...
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April Media, Formerly Anti-CNN, Republishes Foreign Firebrands
April Media, formerly known as “Anti-CNN,” is not a fan of either leading presidential candidate in this U.S. election cycle, if articles they’ve published likening Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and...
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Insubordinate People’s Procuratorate Refuses City’s Orders
In an act of public insubordination, the People’s Procuratorate of Xuzhou City refused orders to send its staff out into the streets to “help maintain traffic order” in a bid for a “National Civilized...
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Rising County Leader Unmasked as Diploma Cheat
An official in central China’s Hunan province has been stripped of his nomination to a senior governmental position following revelations that he had previously gained admission to a technical college...
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The Cuisine and Gallery Behind the G-20 State Banquet
As one of the consultants for the Hangzhou Cuisine Museum, in the capital of eastern China’s Zhejiang province, I was thrilled to learn that our museum, along with several other food establishments,...
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Guizhou Axes Anti-Graft Tool Used as Corruption Loophole
Guizhou province in southwestern China is closing its “integrity and discipline account,” long abused by officials as a tool to hide corruption, local newspaper Guizhou Metropolis Daily reported on...
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China Struggles to Reform Its Mass Organizations
This is the first installment of an ongoing series that will explore the current reforms of mass organizations in China. In the first half of 2016, the phrase “Communist Youth League reform” often...
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Entrepreneur Claims Police Detention ‘Illegal’
A Chinese businessman-official is suing police for 130 million yuan ($19.6 million) claiming he was detained for almost two weeks because of a personal vendetta. Hu Xufeng, 36, is the CEO of a...
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How China’s Provinces Fight One Another for Olympic Glory
Imagine if Michael Phelps returned to the United States after the Rio Games, only to find the glory of his Olympics gold split between Maryland and Michigan. This thought may seem strange on surface...
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Villager’s 87th Birthday Party Leads to Anti-Corruption Fine
After Cao Rencheng hosted a birthday party for his 87-year-old mother, he was promptly fined by the local village chief, who said the banquet was in violation of an anti-corruption rule, newspaper...
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From Model Workers to New Feminists
This is the second in a five-part series about women in Chinese politics. You can find part one here. Before China enacted the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, the main channel through which women...
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How to Be More Than a Token Woman in Chinese Politics
This is the first in a five-part series about women in Chinese politics. You can find part two here. She was one of Shanghai’s most influential modern politicians, a woman responsible for the...
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My Choice to Advertise My Country, Not a Company
This is the third in a five-part series about women in Chinese politics. You can find parts one and two here. In her class of 20-something undergraduates studying advertising at Shanghai...
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The Politics of Village Life
This is the fourth in a five-part series about women in Chinese politics. You can find parts one, two, and three here. Dressed simply in a black sweater and beige pants, 30-year-old Chen Xiaobo...
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