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[Sixth Tone] China tried to ban private tutoring. It created a huge black market.
Last year, China outlawed private academic tutoring in a bid to promote social equality. The result: a thriving network of underground study centers, serving the children of wealthy, well-connected fa...
5 Aug 202215min
[The World of Chinese] Jade mining in the Kunlun Mountains: Where life is cheaper than rocks
A former Hotan jade miner looks back on a disappeared, dangerous trade.Read the article by Renjian the Livings: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/07/jade-mining-in-the-kunlun-mountains-where-life...
5 Aug 202247min
[SupChina] Mayhem in China’s semiconductor industry as ‘chips madmen’ are arrested
Years of government spending on semiconductors seem to have only led to massively expensive failed projects and chief executives in jail.Read the article by Barry van Wyk: https://supchina.com/2022/08...
5 Aug 20226min
[Caixin Global] How law professors take turns to serve China’s courts
Academics can help rationalize judicial decision-making, in an effort to build a stronger community around the law.Read the article by Huang Yuxin and Cai Xuejiao: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-07...
2 Aug 20229min
[The World of Chinese] How English went from imperialist treachery to lingua franca
While English language education was once practically forbidden, decades of reform have turned it into massive business.Read the article by Chu Dandan: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/07/how-en...
2 Aug 20228min
[Caixin Global] Opinion: The hard-won wisdom of famed lawyer Zhang Sizhi
Zhang Sizhi died at the age of 95 after a lifetime of contributions to the legal profession. His career mirrored the fate of his country.Read the article by Si Weijiang: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2...
2 Aug 20228min
[Sixth Tone] In Southwest China, bankers now double as border guards
Tasked with preventing COVID-19 transmission across China’s border with Myanmar, officials in the small city of Ruili have mobilized everyone from bureaucrats to bankers.Read the article by Zhang Fang...
29 Jul 20228min
[The World of Chinese] How do you solve a problem like rural banks?
Rural banks were supposed to help farmers make a living and remote areas develop. How did they become so problematic?Read the article by Alex Colville: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/07/the-tr...
29 Jul 202211min
