March 11, 2010 | LATEST STORIES, PHOTOS & VIDEO:

Bread, Milk, and Pocket Change: A Brief History of Childhood

SOUTHERN METROPOLIS WEEKLY | I didn’t even have a concept of purchasing toys; I made toys by myself. Girls liked to fly kites, to jump rubber ropes, and boys were crazy about slingshot guns. I loved flying kites in spring, finding some sliced bamboo and some pieces from a used exercise book which could be made into a kite. Boys used some iron wire and some rubber ropes to make a real “weapon,” and...

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To Catch a Foreigner

VOC.COM.CN | When I was passing by Youdian Street, I saw a man and a woman bringing somebody to help a foreigner who was being chased. It's said that the foreigner had charged his cell phone with 50 yuan of talk-time, but the shopkeeper added 100 yuan; the problem was that nobody knows if the shopkeeper was trying to exploit the foreigner, or if the foreigner was trying to swindle the shopkeeper?

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For the company, shut your dialect mouths!

YWEEKEND | People in offices who speak loudly in dialect may feel they are very cool and very fashionable, but other uncomprehending people see them as very backward. Recently, a small, privately held enterprise in Wuhan issued a “prohibition against dialects” to its workers, stipulating that “speaking one sentence in Wuhan dialect will be penalized 10 yuan,” which immediately caused a heated debate on the Internet. Some people said everybody is a local person,...

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Those jackals, tigers and leopards run amok.

SINA.COM | The fact of the matter is that it is not Jackie Chan’s mistake, instead it is the mistake of our country people who are eager to cause disturbances! Some of our brethren, crazy about publicizing the affairs of stars, are using this to increase the degree of their own fame. This is totally a kind of greed-driven act, and wrapped in a beautiful coat: it makes use of Chinese people’s nationalist sentiment,...

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UFO Filmed in Changsha

CHINESE TV | A UFO spotting in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, is covered on TV news.

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‘I struggled 18 years just to drink a cup of coffee with you’

163.COM | Modernization will cut China’s traditional society into two halves: one half is the bright focus, the other is downcast with no light; one half progresses with each day, the other half is stagnant. If you are not lucky to be born into one half, I am sorry, you drew the lower lot. To be born as a peasant, you must spend more effort than city people to be able to live an...

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‘Human flesh searches’ underscore how easily Chinese netizens are swayed

SUPESITE | In 2007, after a husband had an affair, a Beijing woman Jiang Yan jumped from a building killing herself, and left behind her blog. Her blog was quickly circulated around the Internet. For the sake of a "grievance" on her behalf, a family member created a website called "migrant bird flies north." After reading that website's posts, maybe Internet users would slander her husband to death...

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Using the “Human Flesh” Hunt for Good: “Baobei Come Home”

VARIOUS SOURCES | Baby, Mama really misses you very much! 163.com and all netizens, it is you all who allow us to feel that there is still warmth in life, allow us to not again be soldiers fighting alone, allow us on the road searching for our child to still be able to feel life’s real affection, child, remember the road home, family without you is not complete!

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A Safe Sex Oath for Guangzhou’s Prostitutes

SINA.COM | This involved a key person -- Fang Shaoping. He is the author of the oath to use condoms. As it were, he is a hero in the history of Chinese AIDS prevention, because the work was too sensitive and controversial, and was very low-key, it was only understood by experts, very few people heard about it. This contributed to holding back China's rise in AIDS, presumably it will...

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An Alleged Counterrevolutionary Teacher’s Personal Plea

TIANYA.CN | Incredibly, two female East China University of Political Science and Law students actually reported their professor, Yang, to the police. But, their professor Yang was in the classroom giving comments or expressing his own opinion! I cannot understand why, those two girls should have been born during the pro-democracy movement, they cannot understand, their elders should be experienced, or at least should have been a little enlightened. Nobody get agitated,...

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