We Chinese: Modest Celebrations for This Year’s ‘Day of The Shining Star’
In North Korea, 16 February is Kim Jong Il’s birthday, and is known as the ‘Day of the Shining Star’, an event normally celebrated with […]
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We Chinese: Divorced North Korean Couples Will Be Sent to Labor Camps
North Korea’s revised divorce policy punishes both spouses with labor camp sentences, allegedly to uphold socialist values, with harsher penalties often applied to women—reinforcing traditional […]
China announces ‘One Boyfriend’ policy
By HU DAMANRelationships Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – In a surprise announcement concluding this year’s National People’s Congress, President Xi Jinping said China will […]
Ask a character in a Cultural Revolution novel
Dear character in a Cultural Revolution novel, It looks like I won’t be able to get my lung transplant this year. Any suggestions for where […]
Expelled journalists face bleak Christmas at home with family, friends
By HUI JIAForeigners Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – Nearly two dozen foreign correspondents are contemplating a grim holiday season this year, as China refuses […]
Family devastated after ‘New Year’s Gala’ DVD goes missing
By LONG TAOSpring Festival Correspondent ZHENGZHOU (China Daily Show) – The fireworks are still exploding over the village of Nanren, Henan but for one family, […]
Chinese manufacturing slump promises most tasteful Christmas in years
by SHENG DANJIEConsumer Correspondent DONGGUAN (China Daily Show) – The West may be facing its least-tacky Christmas in living memory, thanks to the recent slump […]
Why I’m going on holiday
Leaving China is not a new phenomenon. Nor is writing about it – as this moving letter, newly discovered in the Shanghai archives of the North […]
China’s black jails get a lick of fuschia
By HEI JIANYUCrime Correspondent QIUTAOSHANZHANG (China Daily Show) – Standing in front of a well-known ‘black jail’ in Shanxi province, Officer Gu Laofung looks amused. “Looking […]
Grandson of Mao Zedong wishes he was grandson of someone else
By QING DINGAncestors Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – The grandson of Chairman Mao Zedong has spoken of his dissatisfaction at being the revolutionary Chinese […]