Chinese Phone Upstarts Sell With Personality
As Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi continues to rise, The New York Times’ Paul Mozur...
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Temple-Hopping and Virtual Prayers
Following a Zhejiang temple’s inundation with applicants for short-term monkhood, Zoey Zhang at The Diplomat looks at young Chinese seeking temporary refuge from the pressures of the dusty world: During the ten-day camp...
Stampede of Would-Be Monks Crashes Temple Website
On June 28th, Zhejiang’s Ci’en temple offered laymen a chance to join its eight Buddhist monks for between three months and two years. In the past, fewer than ten people have responded each year, but over the past...
The Post 80s Generation—Are the Kids All Right?
At ChinaFile, Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell and Damien Ma discuss the gap between members of China’s post-80s generation and their parents, based on a recent article by James Palmer that was featured on CDT last week. Sun...
China’s Generation Gaps
As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one...
Young, Gifted and Red: the Communist Party’s Quiet Revolution
Tania Branigan reports for the Guardian, from Beijing: In recent years, it has concentrated on targeting the best and brightest. The party has largely transformed itself “from a mass organisation designed for mass...
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