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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 75
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for South China Morning Post
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 5, 2026
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Chinese doctor with PhD leaves medical career to deliver food, pursue music part-time (opens the original)
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Liu knows a PhD means status and money, but she realises it is just not for her A Chinese doctoral graduate in medicine left her promising hospital job to embrace a “less meritocratic” lifestyle as a part-time freelancer. Liu Zihan, 31, delivers food, performs at a pub, sells breakfast, and explores a variety of part-time jobs that captivate her interests while providing for her living expenses. Before leaving her full-time employment in February, Liu served as a psychiatrist and postdoctoral re
Chinese retail chain faces rare backlash for limiting new hires to 4-year contracts (opens the original)
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Critics brand policy ridiculous, calling it an excuse to exploit young talent and dump them as they grow experienced, harder to control Retail tycoon Yu Donglai, widely known as China’s “most conscientious” boss, recently triggered public controversy with a proposal to sign only a four-year “training initiative” contract with future new hires, without renewing it. Yu has been nationally acclaimed for the many unconventionally humanistic rules he set up for Pangdonglai, a supermarket chain he fou
Artworks reveal Chinese royalty loved role-playing long before modern cosplay (opens the original)
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What Emperor Qianlong did with his court painters is the 18th century equivalent of digital photo manipulation and Photoshop The Qing dynasty’s Empress Dowager Cixi is renowned as a cosplay enthusiast, leaving behind photographs and paintings of herself embodying the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin. However, she was not the first to engage in such role-playing while on the throne. Long before Cixi (1835–1908), the Qing dynasty’s emperors Yongzheng (1678–1735) and his son, Qianlong (1711–1799)
China teacher probed over ‘sadfishing’ sacrifice claims – 23 years away from home (opens the original)
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Facing a hyper-competitive academic market, young educators must publish, secure grants, teach under tight deadlines to avoid dismissal A Chinese professor has ignited controversy after asserting at a university conference that her extreme commitment to research involved sleeping less than two hours a day for a decade, investing two million yuan (US$300,000) of her own money, and completely sacrificing her personal and family life for over 20 years. The public health professor, Lu Chan, from the
Ancient China scholars drank ink for poetic inspiration or poor handwriting penalties (opens the original)
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Unlike today’s inks made from industrial pigments, ancient Chinese ink was produced using soot from burning natural plants or animal oils While the Chinese idiom, “Having ink in their stomach”, serves as a metaphor to commend the knowledgeable, the act of ingesting ink was a common practice among ancient literati. The earliest documentation of ink drinking dates back to the Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589), where it was used as a sanctioned punishment for scholars with illegible handwri
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