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Chinese Pop Song: ‘One Beijinger in Beijing’ by Lao Lang
Learn Chinese pop folk song 一个北京人在北京 'One Beijinger in Bejing' by Lao Lang (Wang Yang) written by Gao Xiaosong. With music video, lyrics, pinyin, & English lyrics.
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10 RMB Brothel Sex Workers: Comparing Prostitution to Farming
A detailed report of the lives, reasons, hardships, and risks of Chinese prostitutes working in China's "10-yuan Brothels", charging 10-30 RMB per customer.
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Witness: Chinese Lives Through a Tencent Photographer’s Lens
A collection of vivid and stirring photos documenting the lives of many ordinary Chinese people in China, as exhibited by Tencent photographer Yang Shuhuai.
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Beijingers Climb Into Overcrowded Public Bus Through Windows
Photos of Chinese bus riders squeezing onto a packed public bus through the windows during rush hour in Beijing, with netizens comparing it to India's trains.
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Migrant Workers Riding Motorcycles Home for Spring Festival
Photos of the "armies" of Chinese migrant workers and families riding motorcycles across the country to get home for the Chinese New Year Spring Festival holiday.
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Migrant Worker Waits In Line for 6 Days for Train Tickets Home
A migrant worker in China waited in line for 6 days and 6 nights to buy train tickets home to celebrate Chinese New Year, only to find his tickets are sold out.
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Migrant Workers In Tears, Happy to Go Home for Chinese New Year
Chinese netizen reactions to a video of a group of migrant workers overcome with emotion at the prospect of going home to wives and family for Chinese New Year's.
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Corner Cutting Exposed in Jilin Railway Bridge Project
Dangerous corner cutting and inexperienced construction crews have been exposed for a multibillion RMB Jilin railway project involving two bridges and a tunnel.
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Migrant Worker Unhappy with Toe Transplanted Onto His Hand
A migrant worker who lost his thumb in a workplace injury is now unhappy with the doctor & hospital that transplanted one of his toes onto his hand in its place.
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“iSpeak China”: What Are Young Chinese Thinking About?
30 photos by British photographer Adrian Fisk featuring young Chinese 16-30 years old sharing their thoughts, including on China's rise, materialism & children.
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Elderly, Women, & Children Left Behind in China’s Countryside
Photos of Chinese parents, wives, & children left behind in the rural countryside, & the empty chairs of sons, daughters, husbands, & parents working in cities.
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Migrant Workers Children Spend Childhood Scavenging Landfill
Photos of Chinese migrant workers and their children who live around Guiyang's largest garbage dump and survive by scavenging for recyclables and things to sell.
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Migrant Worker Beats Wife in Public for “Not Listening”
An migrant worker from Anhui, China is photographed viciously beating his wife on a public street in Zhejiang province, apparently for "not listening/obeying".
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The Story of W&L: China’s Great Internet Divide
“China does not have one 'national internet,' instead there’s a great divide. Our elites are on par with America, while our grassroots are on par with Vietnam.”
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Chongqing Migrant Workers Unpaid & Beaten, SWAT Deployed
A SWAT team is deployed to a Chongqing construction site to arrest a corrupt subcontractor and his hired thugs, and distribute unpaid wages to migrant workers.
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Migrants Workers Motorcycle Home In Snow For Spring Festival
Migrant workers unable to get train tickets home for the Chinese New Year take to the roads in motorcycle caravans, braving rain, snow, & freezing cold weather.
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Man Can’t Buy Spring Festival Train Ticket, Protests Naked
A Chinese man strips naked to protest the difficulty of buying train tickets home for Chinese New Year & a young migrant worker plans to stand 60 hrs & 5000 km.
