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A visitor photographs Doraemon dolls at a recent exhibit devoted to the popular Japanese cartoon character in Qingdao, Shandong Province.Credit Wu Hong/European Pressphoto Agency
As Hong Kongers rally for the right to choose their own chief executive over Beijing’s pick, tens of thousands of mainland Chinese are participating in a one person, one vote online opinion poll that asks whether China should boycott a blue Japanese cat.
Nothing seems more harmless than the plump-faced Japanese cartoon robot cat, Doraemon, who does not even have claws. He is the key character of a manga series of the same name first published in 1969, which was subsequently adapted into a long-running anime series. But Chinese newspapers cautioned their countrymen: Beware of this “blue fatty” — the Japanese are exporting their values through him. Read more…
Liren board members (its founder, Li Yingqiang, is second from right) staged an online protest after announcing its dissolution. The signs read: “Burned but not destroyed.”Credit Courtesy of Liren Rural Library
A nongovernmental organization that had run a rural library project with as many as 22 libraries across China has announced that it is closing down, citing “tremendous pressure” from the local authorities.
Since 2007, Liren — which means helping someone find his way — had devoted itself to providing children in underprivileged areas with free access to books and fostering independent thinking. Its founder, Li Yingqiang, who studied economics at Peking University, had started by building a library in his own former school in Hubei Province. From there, the group formed partnerships with other primary and secondary schools, donating books and sending volunteers to help run libraries and organize reading sessions for students. Some Liren libraries that did not have partnerships with local schools were run by volunteers from private premises.
In an open letter posted last week on its social media accounts, the group said it had ceased operations at nine libraries in early September, in most cases after rural schools terminated their partnerships. In one case, a library run by a volunteer from his home in Huaibin County, Henan Province was shut down by the local civil affairs department, which the group said did not give a reason for its actions. Read more…
The Education Expo in Beijing. Last year, nearly 200,000 Chinese students went to universities in the United States.Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
Although Chinese state news media have cited concerns recently that the United States is indoctrinating Chinese students by including its founding documents upholding freedom and human rights in the SAT, teachers and parents don’t seem to be too alarmed.
As American universities become a popular choice among affluent Chinese who want their children to receive top-quality higher education, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are taking the SAT college admission test every year. Last year, nearly 200,000 Chinese students went to universities in the United States, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
The growing number of young Chinese who are eager to attend American universities has spawned a large number of companies vowing to help students ace the test, forming a lucrative industry for SAT test preparation across the country. Read more…
The campus of Peking University in Beijing. The Communist Party committee at the university said it was urging students and staff to wage a “resolute struggle" against speech challenging core Communist values, according to a party journal.Credit Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
The Communist Party committees of three prestigious Chinese universities have pledged to uphold ideological controls over their students and faculty.
Separate statements by Peking University in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou were published Sunday under the headline “How to carry out ideological work at universities under new historical conditions” in the party journal Qiushi, which means “seeking truth.”
The party committee of Fudan University focused on fostering identification with socialism among faculty members under 45 years old, while Sun Yat-sen University envisioned a “healthy and positive online environment” and more online Marxist education. The Peking University committee vowed to improve its online opinion-monitoring system and urged its students and staff to wage a “resolute struggle” against speech challenging the party’s core values. Read more…
A feminist group based in Guangzhou staged an online protest against the sexual exploitation of women in the workplace. The sign reads: "My vagina does not come free with my labor."Credit Courtesy of Ms. Zheng
Four women, dressed in T-shirts and panties, lined up in a row before the camera. One of them, Ms. Zheng, dropped down on one knee, revealing a message boldly written in red on a whiteboard behind them: “My vagina does not come free with my labor.” More words were written on the women’s thighs, reiterating: “Not freebies.” And then, a food deliveryman who was briefly detained to serve as cameraman released the shutter.
The resulting photograph is the centerpiece of an online campaign by a group of feminists in response to a recent fatal rape case. In June, a 20-year-old woman at a state-owned company in Chongqing was asked by her boss to a dinner. She was sexually assaulted by her boss’s friend and died as a result of her injuries, the Chinese news media reported this week. Read more…
