Sunday, May 20, 2012, 4:20 AM CST – China

What They Say

Hospitals, especially at the most basic level, administer vitamins, hormones, antibiotics and saline no matter what patients are suffering from. In the 1950-60s, the philosophy that ‘socialism must not back up’ meant that this car was not installed with side mirrors. I don’t acknowledge Tsinghua University any more. It has become a plutocrat. It’s just a shame it still attracts the cream of China’s students. Gongpu [public servant] would be better translated as VIP. A train crash is described as a ‘side clash.’ A boiler explosion is described as ‘community disassembly.’ How can I write science fiction when the world around me seems like science fiction?

What They Say - January 2012

January 2012 Issue | by News China Magazine

“Now we have two kinds of filial sons – regular and CES-approved.”

- New Weekly comments on a move by the China Ethics Society (CES) to identify one million 4-6-year-olds as “filial sons.”

“Microblogs allow intellectuals to consider themselves giants, but when faced with real power, they are nothing.”

Rights campaigner Yang Haipeng on the limitations of “Internet justice.”

“China’s financial industry is open to foreigners but closed to Chinese. It’s our modern version of Shanghai’s Huangpu River Park in the ‘30s. ‘No Chinese and dogs allowed.’”

Economist Mao Yushi criticizes the exclusion of Chinese private firms from the country’s financial sector.

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