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Sixth Tone
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Fresh voices from today's #China - news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube.
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A livestreaming app has been ordered to pay $4,300 to the mother of a daredevil who died during a broadcast ow.ly/LsS050umejA pic.twitter.com/UFGvOjPNv5
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Authorities in southwestern China have opened a probe after a convicted rapist who was given a death sentence in the ’90s but was discovered living outside prison as the alleged head of a criminal gang ow.ly/JE0I50um51D pic.twitter.com/UcmLH3x1H3
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Over 20,000 shoe collectors gathered at the first Sneaker Con ever held on the Chinese mainland last weekend ow.ly/lgsa50ulYyT
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“Patriarchal societies — and their avatars, whether they be business leaders or op-ed writers — face few barriers for exerting pressure on women who do not want to have children,” says Zeng Yuli in his piece on Jack Ma’s controversial childbirth speech
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Villagers in Yong’an say big-business eucalyptus farms are starving them of water. The trees have been planted for its fast-growing, high-quality wood.
“We used to irrigate our land with that water, but now there’s none left,” says a farmer. Read more: ow.ly/Z77P50ukQet pic.twitter.com/zTsruWSKJ6
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Chinese Internet Breaks After Teen Idol Caught Smoking ow.ly/zyum30oMWNV pic.twitter.com/lRiySRPlm6
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A convicted rapist sentenced to death two decades ago was discovered last month to be living outside prison as the alleged leader of a criminal gang ow.ly/EsZ250ukIuq
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21 de mai |
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ByteDance has launched a new messaging app that it hopes will challenge China’s dominant all-purpose social platform, WeChat ow.ly/RDOe50ukIrQ pic.twitter.com/jjNt8AWOUR
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21 de mai |
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Wearing a wig and lipstick, he’s playing the role of a mother living in the rural area for his viral web series.
After moving back to China’s former coal capital, where the economy has slowed down, he's become a livestreamer, attracting millions of fans. ow.ly/hvK250ukGPZ pic.twitter.com/MJ9k3nZNsf
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21 de mai |
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“Some migrant women see [long-term relationships with married men] as a way to move up the social ladder, while others simply see them as a way to survive the social displacement and emotional dislocation involved in the rural-urban transition” ow.ly/ChP750ukF79
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21 de mai |
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“I view shoes as friends who accompany me through life and go places with me,” says a sneakerhead, who was one of over 20,000 visitors at Sneaker Con Shanghai to buy, sell, and trade with other shoe collectors ow.ly/mXZ850uku3G
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21 de mai |
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NetEase plans to release China’s first #Pokemon mobile game ow.ly/hXUM50uktSc pic.twitter.com/OelrsEnFTE
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21 de mai |
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29-year-old Zhang Weili has risen to become China’s highest-ranked UFC fighter, challenging prejudices that paint female fighters as brutal and dangerous ow.ly/rjBx50uj80X
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20 de mai |
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British fighter Bianca Walkden defeated Zheng Shuyin of China at the World Taekwondo Championships, but the result has caused a storm of controversy. Read more: ow.ly/J5Cr50ujduk pic.twitter.com/egLqLkTOr4
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20 de mai |
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China’s Week in Photos: a building collapses in Shanghai, causing 10 deaths; over 6,000 students attend a handwriting competition in southern China; and workers catch sea cucumbers in Hebei province.
See more: ow.ly/U72X50uiXzf pic.twitter.com/e1y0nZDbNV
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20 de mai |
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When the eucalyptus trees were first planted near the village, government officials heralded a coming economic boom. Then the water dried up. Residents are now suing the local government and a timber company. ow.ly/WnjW30oMoul
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20 de mai |
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China’s former top securities regulator, Liu Shiyu, has turned himself in to authorities as they investigate him for alleged corruption ow.ly/jmaK50ujdcv pic.twitter.com/pkLZrMjWBp
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20 de mai |
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“We made two requests in the appeal. Firstly, the decision should be overturned. Secondly, the referee should be banned for life,” said Zheng Shuyin’s coach after her controversial loss at the World Taekwondo Championships ow.ly/R7AC50uj7eH
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20 de mai |
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"Without livestreaming, my life is boring and stressful," said 68-year-old Hu Pingsheng, a live streamer on Blued, China’s largest social networking app for gay men.
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20 de mai |
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Jack Ma’s lewd “669” wedding toast has raised eyebrows, but his comments on childbirth and marriage — “While there are many paths to marriage, there is one that everyone must take, that is, having children,” for example — are far more disturbing ow.ly/UmG050uiSkE
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