“Four Won’t Youth” (四不青年, sì bù qīngnián) is the latest appellation for discontented youth, who in this case “won’t date, won’t marry, won’t buy a home, and won’t have kids.” Four Won’t Youth, like other similar terms...
Every movement needs its anthem. In the now-censored musical parody “Sunny Side Kong Yiji,” the emergent “Kong Yiji literature” wave seems to have found one of its own. “Kong Yiji literature” is a genre of self-deprecating...
This week, China extended restrictions on minors’ screen time. New regulations issued by the National Press and Publication Administration will limit minors’ online gaming to only three hours per week: one hour from 8:00-9:00...
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
David Barboza at the New York Times looks at live karaoke performances on YY.com, a popular...
David Goldenberg at The New Yorker looks at a relatively recent social media phenomenon in China...
Many Chinese teenagers are sent to a military compound in Beijing by their parents to detox from an Internet obsession, from Time: Even though it was just before Lunar New Year–the most important family holiday on the...
An excellent summary from Joel Martinsen at Danwei of the battle raging online between Chinese nationalists and Chinese advocates of free speech, launched a couple weeks ago when Southern Metropolis editor Chang Ping wrote a...
From Financial Express: A Chinese company has launched a new service to break the internet addiction of youngsters in the northwest city of Xi’an. Yanghu Adolescent Quality Development Company Ltd, the first private firm set up specifically to help net-addicted youth, registered in March 2005 will begin operation later this month. The company claims to […]
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