CDT’s Jonathan Ansfield wrote the following for his Biganzi column: Boyish Supergirl Li Yuchun made androgyny a sexy subject in China. Celeb social critics Li Yinhe and Yu Dan, plenty butch in their own right, helped to affirm the trend. Never mind that for women in Mao’s time, gender ambiguity was the rule. Today it’s […]
Read MoreFrom Tianya, translated by ESWN: Compared to the popularity of the Super Girl contest last year, this year’s contest is more sedate. Beneath this calmness, there is a more brutal competition as the temptation of overnight fame led the young girls and even their parents to resort to all sorts of chicanery. There was the […]
Read MoreAccording to Xinhua, the word “Baoxian 保先” (Preserving the Progressiveness (of the CCP)”) is among top ten “most searched key words” on Chinese search engine Baidu, together with “Shenzhou VI...
Read MoreCDT was sent the following account of the Shalan flash flood (Note: The author, Xiaorong, is not CDT Guest Blogger Li Xiaorong). The essay is based on an article written by a Chinese journalist, which was posted on a BBS but...
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