Live-streaming has become a national obsession in China. Everyone seems to be doing it, young and old, stiff and limber! We’re not just talking about live-streaming formal events, but the everyday stuff of life. Live-stream yourself or others doing something interesting and you’re guaranteed to become famous! I love stumbling across video clips from these…
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Measures, Counter-Measures, and Filial Piety
The Chinese have a saying: “shang you zheng ce, xia you dui ce.” A fairly literal translation is “the top adopts measures and the bottom adopts counter-measures. A more colloquial way of putting it is “the leaders make the policies and the people find a way around them.” This plays itself out in a thousand…
Reading Assignment – Nursing Homes and a Baby Invasion
An article in the China Daily (the Chinese government’s ‘English mouthpiece’) about the nursing home boom in China highlights one of the challenges that China faces as its population ages: Of all the unexpected things in Chinese society, moving into a nursing home is one of the most unusual. Nursing homes in China…