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Chinese Parents with 11 Children: “Better Than Saving Money”
The story of a Sichuan couple who gave birth to 11 children believing it would be better than saving money for improving their future, with netizen reactions.
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Diaosi: Peking University Releases Report on China’s “Losers”
In the first study of its kind, Chinese diaosi (internet slang for “loser”) earn an average of 2919.7 RMB per month and 72.3% are unhappy with their lives.
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Desperate Father Teaches Himself TCM to Treat Dying Daughter
Unable to afford the 300k necessary for a bone marrow transplant, a poor father resorts to burning herbs in hopes of treating his daughter’s deadly disease.
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Police Called on Chinese Kid Wearing Open-Crotch Pants in US
Translated netizen reactions to ethnic Chinese parents with children wearing split pants in America being reported to local police for “disorderly conduct”.
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“Lost Childhoods” of Ethnic Yi Migrant Worker Children
A touching photo series capturing the difficult lives of the ethnic Yi minority migrant workers who harvest kelp in Jiaodong and their accompanying children.
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Old Tree Relocated for Highway, Villagers Clash with Police
Chinese villagers protesting the forced relocation of a 200-year-old tree to make way for a highway are hurt in a clash with local government, police, militia.
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“90% of Chinese Peasants Live As They Did 40 Years Ago”
Chinese netizens support a CPPCC member who criticizes that most of China’s rural residents have been left behind by the past 40 years of economic reforms.
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No Money and In Pain, Chinese Man Saws Off Own Leg at Home
A rural Chinese man in Baoding, Hefei province suffering from a strange disease in his legs could not afford amputation so he sawed off his own leg by himself.
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Father Sucks Rabies-Infected Blood from Dog-Bitten Son, Dies
A Chinese father has died from rabies a month after using his mouth to suck blood contaminated with rabies out of a dog bite his son suffered from a stray dog.
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Men in Chinese Town Taking Vietnamese Wives, Reactions
Young men from a town in Henan, China have brought home 23 Vietnamese women as wives, finding them cheaper, higher quality, and with more traditional values.
