Jiayun (Jenny) Feng is the Society and Culture Editor at The China Project. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is a bilingual journalist committed to reporting on China-related issues with a global perspective.
Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent and the countryโs most beloved chili sauce brand Lวo Gร n Mฤ ่ๅนฒๅฆ are officially back on good terms, after a highly public feud that ended with a dramatic twist.
A professor at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, has been removed from his teaching duties after accidentally showing students his sexual online conversations with three women while screen sharing during a virtual class.
After being forced to close for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, around 345 movie theaters in Shanghai have received much-needed financial aid of nearly 18 million yuan ($2.5 million) from the cityโs film bureau. But with cinemas across the country showing no signs of reopening, Chinaโs movie theater business is still expecting widespread bankruptcies.
In only a few tumultuous months, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the face of higher education. But besides inspiring a proliferation of virtual classrooms, it has also brought a string of longer-term trends and concerns to the forefront of the international higher-education industry.
The founder of Yuzhang Academy, a โConfucian reform schoolโ that purportedly treats internet addiction, has been sentenced to almost three years behind bars on charges of unlawful restraint, after dozens of former students came forward accusing the institution of using corporal punishment and torture to โcureโ them.
More than a year after she first began her legal fight, a transgender woman in Beijing has won her case against Chinese ecommerce platform Dangdang after the company fired her when she took a leave of absence for her gender confirmation surgery.
The Wild Cooperative ้ๅคๅไฝ็คพ, a four-piece indie rock band in Nanjing, announced today that it had fired guitarist Liรบ Yรกo ๅ้ฅ, one of its founding members, following a host of his Weibo posts containing sexually offensive remarks about underage girls.
After comparing a number of math papers published by Chinese authors, an independent journalist discovered that 65 of them were products of a โpaper mill,โ which sold the papers to about 77 Chinese clients from 43 institutions.
The complaint that landed the show in trouble was made by an anonymous viewer on May 22. In a note submitted to content regulators in Hunan, the viewer said the series had โproblematicโ values, and that the main characters set a bad example for kids because they โdyed their hair bright colors,โ โwore loud clothes,โ and โdid costume changes onstage.โ