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Child Pees in Shanghai Subway, Father Argues with Angry Crowd
A young Chinese couple that allowed their child to openly urinate in the Shanghai Metro subway is widely condemned online for uncivilized behavior and attitude.
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Preferential Treatment and Status for Foreigners in China
A short video and Chinese netizen reactions to the difference in treatment and status enjoyed by ‘wai guo ren’ foreigners vs. ‘wai di ren’ (non-locals, migrants).
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Migrant Worker Drops Money, Looted by Surrounding Passersby
A Chinese migrant worker in Shanghai accidentally drops 17,600 RMB, a year’s worth of wages, on the street which is then quickly looted by people around him.
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Crab Fishing, 10,000 USD a Week, Chinese Netizen Reactions
Translated Chinese netizen reactions to the dangerous but lucrative (10,000 USD/week) job of crab fishing. What would happen if Chinese were allowed to do it?
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Elderly Scavenger Harassed on Shanghai Public Bus Line 82
A video of an old man being angrily yelled at by a passenger and the driver of a Shanghai public bus for boarding with bags of recyclable garbage sparks debate.
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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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Shanghai Jing An District Jiaozhou Road Apartment Fire Photos
This is already old news (there is good English reporting on Shanghaiist) but here are some photographs throughout the unfortunate event. A lot of the reporting of this fire happened online by Chinese netizens, and there have been many complaints and criticism about the poor reporting by the Shanghai media. Many English reports have already […]
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‘Leopard Print Man’ Latest Shanghai Metro Celebrity
From Sohu: Deer Doctor, Gundam Man, “No Pants People“…no one knows when it began but the metro/subway has apparently become a platform for self-expression and personality. Recently, various major internet discussion forums yet again exploded with images and video of Shanghai Metro’s “Leopard Print Man”, whose behavior was weird and improper, attracting many netizen onlookers […]
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Chinese Angry USA Donated More To Haiti Than Sichuan
From Tianya: Haiti Earthquake, America donated 100 million USD. Sichuan Earthquake, America donated 500,000 USD While watching the news this morning, America donated 100 million USD for the Haiti Earthquake, but when I just looked it up, do you know how much America donated during the Sichuan Earthquake? 500,000 USD!!! Who is able to tell […]
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Shanghainese Radio Host Tells Listener To Get Lost
There have always been a lot of conflict between Shanghainese people and people from other areas of China. Shanghainese people think non-Shanghainese people are crude and uncivilized. Other people often think Shanghainese are weak and arrogant. One common complaint by non-Shanghainese people is that Shanghainese people will often refuse to speak Putonghua (Mandarin) and insist […]
