Week+3

Articles for Week Three

Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader Bold Remembrances for a Chinese Reformer Boss Rail: The Disaster That Exposed the Underside of the Boom The Children Devour the Revolution China's Corruption Doesn't Match Gilded-Age America Chinese Kleptocracy Communist Party Cadres Launch Property Fire Sale Corruption in Military Economy in Thrall to Its Underworld For Complainers, a Stint in China's Black Jails A Day in the Life of a Beijing "Black Guard" From Police Chief to Political Office, Jobs are for Sale in China In an interesting exposé by Louisa Lim, Lim identifies a hot bed issue currently amongst the government of China, and as she later goes on to point out, an issue with the Chinese workforce itself. Corruption is quite prevalent in China. It has a guiding force within Chinese culture and dictates what many Chinese individuals can hope to obtain in terms of job offers and the future they aspire to. The article, though, made a drastic claim that if no reform of their system happens, the system will collapse. I thought that this was an interesting statement. As Lim highlights, corruption is an ingrained part of the society, and though Chinese political figures pledge to rid the country of corruption, I do not see this as a feasible means. I thought it was unrealistic that the only solution that Lim and her interviewees seemed to see was a complete overhaul of the system. Laura Interview with Chen Guangcheng <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Land Seizures Drop <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Prison Slaves <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rage Against the Elite <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Richer-Than-Romney Lawmakers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why Do Billionaires Keep Ending Up in Prison?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Asian Schools Jump in Rank <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Baby Geniuses <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Broken Dreams <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Expired Milk and Piece of Bread School Lunch <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Families Bet it All on College for Their Children <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Gaokao Highway to Hell <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Learning Virtues <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students by Millions Fill Labor Gap <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why Rural Kids Don't Go to College
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Anger Over Pollution Becomes Main Cause of Social Unrest <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Loves Pork Too Much <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Rising <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Cities of the Future <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Coal's Future Seems Secure <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Electric Vehicles in China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Geoengineering Has Immediate Appeal to China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hong Kong Seizes More than 1000 Smuggled Ivory Tusks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How Cities Can Save China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Massive Water Problem <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Poaching of Migratory Birds Ignites Netizen Anger and Activism <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Push for Increased Energy from Renewables <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rescuing China's Bears from Bile Farms <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Silence Around Tibet's Ecological Crisis <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Spill in China Underlines Environmental Concerns <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Survey Reveals Widespread Coastal Pollution <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ten Minutes to Help You Understand China's Environmental Emergency <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tibetan Mountain Finch Rediscovered After 80 Years <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What Happens When Asia's Water Dries Up? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Yaks are Returning to Tibet, but Does Climate Change Pose Further Risks?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Africa: What are China's Intentions? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Beijing Embraces UN Role <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Beijing's Blue Berets: UN Peacekeeping and the Evolution of Chinese Diplomacy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Can China-Russia Relations Endure? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China's Afghan Moment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Most Threatening Cyberspace Force <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fleeing North Korea Through "Asia's Underground Railroad" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hydro-Hegemony <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In Asia, Ill Will Runs Deep <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Military Spending Unnerves Neighbors <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">North Korea Poses Big Challenge to China's New Leader <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Those Islands <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Vietnam Breaks Up Anti-Chinese Protests <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What Do We Make of the Chinese Hacking?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Creation Myth of Xi Jinping <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ex-Party Official Lambastes Chinese Leaders <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How to Get to the Top of China's Communist Party <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Key to Bringing Democracy to China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Party Trumps a Strongman <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Real China Model <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reformers Aim to Get China to Live Up to Own Constitution
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Beijing Spends a Billion to Get China Rocking I feel like you shouldn’t or could even, dictate where the “new thing” could happen. I think it’s a great idea, but kind of unnecessary. China probably feels the pressure of not having the China version of Psy’s fame. Another reason China does not have a Psy is because of how tightly regulate their Internet, radio and television. This quote, really sums up how musicians feel about the plans, "Combining music and politics is really strange, because the music you get out of it just won't be any good," he said. "If they really want to improve this culture, they need to open up a bit." - Emma Ming <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Censorship is a Must, Says China's Nobel Winner <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Cheap Meth! Cheap Gun! Click Here. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China People's Daily Falls Kim for Jong Eun "Sexist Man Alive" Spoof <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China's Paid Trolls <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This article quickly jumped out at me because, as a internet goer/gamer, i am familiar with the term"troll". <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">it was interesting to read about how China is actually paying people to post comments like the ones i have seen on forums. I have noticed when reading some "troll comments", and is a know fact on the internet, that most trolls don't actually believe what they are typing, but are doing it to attract attention. I thought that it was just like a child though, and never thought that this could be used to distract, or even change peoples opinions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-michael <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China's Speilberg Calls Out Censors <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Coming Soon: a Truly Chinese Internet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How China Social Media is Changing Lives <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Human Flesh Search Engine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Internet: A Force, but not for Democracy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Internet vs. the Chinese Government <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Me and My Censor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Social Media Fuel Citizen Response to Quake <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The "Southern Weekend" Strike
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Aging China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Appearance of Consensus is Breaking Down <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Asian Megacities, Free and Unfree <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Can China Deliver the China Dream(s)? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ceaseless Quest to Silence Dissent <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Watches Newtown: Guns and American Credibility <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China's "Nobel Complex" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chinese Style Love <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">For Many in China, the One Child Policy is Already Irrelevant <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Freedom <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gay Lovers Desperately Seeking "a Wife" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">While Chinese society does not exhibit the same rampant homophobia present in many other nations, the struggle of homosexuals exists as a problem in modern China due to the expectations regarding marriage and childbearing that have persisted in the country. Historically, male same-sex relationships existed as allowable and were even honored in China, although these relations were virtually only admissible outside of marriage, as marriage remained a sort of requirement in the society. The pressure to marry stemmed from the desire to carry on family lines, and the nonfulfillment of this expectation was seen as the most unforgivable instance of unfilial behavior. China legalized homosexuality in 1997, but marriage still presents an issue as a result of residual societal pressures and the cultural importance of family. Parents encourage their children to marry and have their own children, so many gay men and women avoid coming out to their families or marry to placate their parents. Parents push daughters to marry at an earlier age than sons, and some people grow suspicious of single men and women. Zhang Beichuan, an expert on the subject at Qingdao University, estimates that eighty percent of gay men and women marry. Some find homosexual partners of the opposite sex either online or through connections, but he believes that most marry straight partners. Some of these couples choose to have children, while others do not. Some couples agree to terminate the marriage with a planed divorce, but other marriages in which one spouse does not know of his or her partner’s sexuality end in a progression toward disagreement and divorce. Issues concerning the division of property and the custody of children may arise during these marriages. One man stated that being openly gay presents challenges in the workplace, as people question single adults and treat employees who hold a role in supporting their families with more generosity. In addition, gay couples face many social and political difficulties in raising children due to birth control policies and the prevailing opinions regarding homosexuality, marriage, and childbearing in China. I found this article to be very thought-provoking, and it helped me to expand on my knowledge from our class discussion about this issue. The fact that homosexuality is acceptable but that this tolerance is overridden by expectations to marry and raise children is very telling of the importance of family lines in Chinese culture. In this manner, the treatment of this issue in China exists as both similar to and different from the approach to this issue in other parts of the world due to the fact that only some aspects of homosexuality are perceived as permissible in Chinese culture. - Sophia T.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Generation That’s Making China – Yang Lan <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">It's 'Til Death - Or Taxes - Do Us Part <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kay Kay - The Girl from Guangzhou <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">No Country for Old Age <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Price of Marriage in China <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Redefining the Meaning of "Chinese" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Social Divisions are Written in a Little Red Booklet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Too Many Men

As long as there has been struggle in China, there has been female infanticide. (The killing of baby girls). This is because, in Chinese culture, a girl is of not much use to a poor family. She usually goes off to another family. However, a boy can take care of his parents when they get old. As a result of this, in the new generation, there are 30 million more boys than girls. They are set to enter the mating market in 2020. That has resulted in men trying a lot harder in life, so they can become a more desirable mate for a woman. Another factor of this is that when a community is made up of mostly young men, there tends to be a lot more crime. Crime rates in Chicago neighborhoods can be related to the abundance of young men. Gambling, drug abuse, and the kidnapping and trafficking of women has already started to rise. -Robbie H.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wary of Future, Professionals Leave China in Record Numbers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why China Lacks Gangnam Style <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Willing Workers Not Quite as Willing as Before <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why Most Chinese Still Support the Death Penalty

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Powerless to Prevent Rising Tide of Tibetan Self-Immolations <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chinese Intellectuals are Silent <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Dalai Lama Expects China Political Reform <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Exiled Uyghur Leaders Call for China Reforms <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mining in Tibet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tibet is Burning <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">US Ambassadors Confirms Meeting with Tibetans
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">China Imprisons Four Men for "Ghost Marriage" Corpse Bride Trafficking <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Clamor Over Peng Liyuan, China's National Mother <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A Conversation About Domestic Abuse Begins <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Factory Women <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Importance of Being Finished <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Leftover" Women <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">This article completely shocked me. When I read the first few paragraphs, I stopped and read them again because I thought I might have misunderstood. A feminist organization advocating women think lesser of themselves if they don't marry by a certain age? I didn't understand. For what I think to be obvious reasons I don't agree with the stance of the All-China Women's Federation on their crude choice of wording "Leftover" women. The organization is placing the entire value of a women on her marital life. The main thing the article taught or maybe more just emphasized to me, was just how influential the government is. While China is not close to the kind of government involvement there was during the Mao regime, there is still a lot of power being held by political entities. The whole idea that China wants to "upgrade the population quality" and in order to do that, they would, with seemingly no issue, demolish the confidence of tons of women simply pursuing an education farther than most women, and maybe putting marriage father back in their mind has caused me to lose that much more faith in humanity. -Sylvia <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rise of the Princesslings <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rising University Entrance Barriers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Women Officially Equal But Lagging Far Behind Politically <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Women Protest at Gynaecological Exams for Civil Service Jobs
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