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• A journalist’s role in China

  By Very Becoming on September 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  North Korea considers journalists to be the voice of the government and they are therefore held in great esteem.   This sentiment is shared by the government leaders behind the bamboo curtain of China. This government friendly fashion of journalism exacts… Read More ›

• Under cover at the Shanghai marriage market

  By Very Becoming on September 1, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  The Shanghai Marriage Market or, to be politically correct, Matchmaking Corner, takes place every Saturday and Sunday from noon until around five in the evening. Hundreds of parents hang the “resumes” of their sons or daughters across the park and… Read More ›

• Martin Luther King Jr in China

  By Very Becoming on August 29, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  “I have a dream” are words the freshmen students I taught were actually familiar with. They knew that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was perhaps the most influential leader in the fight for racial equality in America, and they knew… Read More ›

• China’s Bo Xilai tries to save his skin

  By Very Becoming on August 29, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  The trial of Bo Xilai started to turn into an episode of Maury. Revelations about the tangled web of strained and complicated relationships within his family were used as his testimony, particularly when the evidence seemed most piled up against… Read More ›

• China tired of Japan’s “empty talk” and refuses leaders’ meeting to discuss disputed islands

  By Very Becoming on August 29, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been calling for more dialogue with Beijing since he came to office in December 2012, the same month a Chinese government plane violated Japan’s airspace over the Senkaku and Diaoyu islands. China had been… Read More ›

• China: Son of prominent general on trial for rape sparks public outcry

  By Very Becoming on August 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The people of China are tired of party officials and their families thinking they are above the law. The children of party officials are especially criticized and seen as “spoiled” because of their behavior. The feelings of outrage surrounding the… Read More ›

• The birds and the bees in China

  By Very Becoming on August 27, 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  The peaceful water town of Tongli is home to a museum one would not expect to find in modern mainland China: a sex museum. The sculpture in the main courtyard that depicts a very small man with deformed limbs and… Read More ›

• China: Response to “Women’s Rights at Risk” by Leta Hong Fincher

  By Very Becoming on August 24, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  With response to the article “Women’s Rights at Risk” by Leta Hong Fincher: What we can say about Mao’s policies during the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward is that they were equally destructive to both men and women. In… Read More ›