All Posts Tagged With " poverty"

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Kunming Protest After Chengguan Beats Man to Death

From Mop: Yesterday [Oct. 31st] around 8PM, more than 100 people carried a gurney with a corpse and surrounded Kunming Guandu District Guanshang Street Office Fude District Branch Chengguan’s entrance, and started to burn paper money [fake money for the dead to use in the underworld]. Including... 

Waiting All Night Outside A Hospital Hoping To See A Doctor

On a very normal night, a reporter saw a lot of people waiting outside the Xiangya Hospital. They had been waiting all night long, just for a “passport” to the doctors. The following contains her observations and opinions, plus some of her photos. From NetEase: Everyday, there are always... 

‘Houses More Dependable Than Men’, Says Chinese Women

From Sina: Houses are more dependable than men, testimony of the house-slave lifestyle of a MM born in 1984After seeing so many people’s ordinary lives, no matter if they are better or if they are poor like me, they are all blessed and happy. Awhile ago, my boyfriend and I broke up, so now I... 

Changing Chinese Children’s Lives With Photographs

From Sina:That child whose fate was changed by a photograph From the internet, I read an article and saw many black and white photographs, and could not help but think of that Project Hope big-eyed little girl [pictured above].Su Mingjuan was the Project Hope big-eyed little girl, and though today... 

Chinese University Schoolgirls Would Marry Evil Rich People

[From: ESWN] The White Haired Girl is a classic story of revolutionary China of a peasant girl who refuses to be a concubine of the evil rich landlord. Some modern Chinese university schoolgirls now say, “if he has money, why not marry him?” Chinese netizens discuss if the young generation has become too materialistic.

Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Cooking Oil

Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away. Usually, slop or swill is fed to pigs but some unscrupulous people will gather the slop and “recycle” the oil in the slop to sell as cooking oil. Of course,... 

Child Begger Girl Clings To Passing Pedestrians In Shenzhen

From NetEase:A shameless and helpless scene that happened in Shenzhen, a beauty trappedWhat does the small child know, the despicable are the black hands behind the scenes!This is all manipulated by adults, all with acts of coercion, violence, imprisonment. Many medium to large cities... 

Handicapped Chinese Man Fixes Bicycle Tire With His Feet

from Tiexue & NetEase: Witness the miracle, a person who refuses to be trapped by his bodyComments from Tiexue: 男人中的极品:Exchanging labor for living expenses, this kind of person deserves to be lauded. If he was here, I would even go to his stall. 韦不良:Too... 

Villagers Loot Diesel From Leaking Oil Pipeline In Shandong

[tweetmeme] A scene most commonly seen in Africa, and often with disastrous results, hundreds of opportunistic villagers in Shandong Province took to the chance of grabbing free oil resulted from a oil leak. The story drew both sympathies toward the poverty stricken villagers in contrast to rich oil... 

Rich vs Poor: How Parents Wealth Helps Or Hurts Children

[tweetmeme] From QQ:Poor Second Generation And Rich Second Generation [or Poor Kids And Rich Kids]Comments from QQ: 相凝. .:Deeply resonates with me. 青柠化妆品:This society is very fair. The rich first generation [parents] did not come out of the mountains and become people with money.... 

Migrant Workers Eating Lunch & Working In Summer Heat

[tweetmeme] From NetEase: Road building under the noon sun Sweat dripping onto dirt Lunch by the wayside Difficult or not, you decideComments: 白吃白痴: Good post. A portrait of real life. Life isn’t easy. zglnjzgy: It was like this when I was a construction worker in Beijing... 

Rural Chinese Young Girl & Family Working In Brick Factory

[tweetmeme] From Tiexue: Summer Work for Zhang QianqianZhang Qianqian is from Guizhou, with her parents, living at the local brick factory, and probably also attends school at the local workers’ school.Upon asking her age, Zhang Qianqian laughed nervously and spoke of other things; I think... 

Naked 10-Year-Old Girls Playing On Trash-Filled Balcony

[tweetmeme] From Mop and NetEase:July 30 noon, two naked girls around 10-years-old played on the balcony of a residential building. This residential building has a total of eight floors, and the two girls were located on the top floor. Observed from the outside, the balcony was piled full of waste... 

Henan Fake Building Shows Village Is Developing

From Tianya: China’s Most Niu “Street-Front Building”, Definitely Will Shock You!In Henan Province Luanchuan County Jiahe Town, this building is very conspicuous. Right next to a public road, it it looks like a small two-story building at a glance, with freshly painted white walls,... 

Young Chinese Children Shining Shoes Behind Tourist Trap

From Mop: After 10pm at night, we tourists were pulled to an essential oils company recommending shopping. Upon exiting from the back we encountered several children cleaning/shining shoes, the oldest only being a little over 10-years-old, the younger not yet 3-years-old. Begging “uncle, auntie”,... 

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