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40 million Cantonese speakers that were never born; no single moms allowed

June 18, 2008 peijin

Saw this on vip.bokee.com–it says that unmarried women in Guangdong are not allowed to receive artificial insemination because the right to be a mother is tied to wedlock. Another factoid worth noting: in the ten years that they’ve been doing … Continue reading →

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Southern Weekend investigative report on the Juyuan Middle School

June 3, 2008 peijin

The Juyuan Middle School was one of the “worst” tragedies of the Wenchuan earthquake: the entirely school collapsed and took the lives of the hundreds of people that were inside it. Recent media attention in China has been focused on … Continue reading →

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An interesting quote from Tristan Tzara

March 20, 2008 peijin

Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed — persistently inquisitive — about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I … Continue reading →

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