Okay, so we already knew propaganda birthday bonanza film Founding of a Party has been using pretty shady means to push box office numbers up (via delaying Transformers, making attendance mandatory, etc etc) but who knew they'd stoop to this? Circulating on weibo are photos showing the process whereby tickets to other movies are being sold as Founding of a Party, then simply manually changed to whatever movie the person wants to see. Here's the CDT translation: more ›

This scandal has been pretty much everywhere on the Chinese internet this week, and China Hush took the liberty of translating the story into English. It goes something like this: Man gets suspicious of wife, ties up wife, and cuts the word "degrading" (other translations could be "low" or "cheap") into her face to make her less attractive to other men. Worse of all? He says it was "her own choice." From China Hush: more ›

It's a given: With any high-pressure exam, there are bound to be a few cheaters. However, the dishonest ones in this country are proving to be particularly tricky to weed out - especially when the test graders are abroad. Chinese students are in the habit of using substitute test takers, also known as “sharpshooters” to help them sit the gaokao, but also for the TOEFL and IELTS--two tests normally required to go abroad to study. more ›

Students are unsatisfied with the quality of higher education here in China, a recent survey discovered. A China Youth Daily poll of 4,488 students found that 59% think China's universities don't rank among the world's top schools. Even though Peking University got 12th place in the latest QS Asian University Ranking, its students say they "have not learned much," and 61% also admitted to observing academic cheating. They blame the schools: over half say their education did not encourage innovation, that the criteria for academic achievement was poor, that their university lacked first-level educators. Instead, over 71% wish to see "independent culture" and a "cultivation of talent" at the top university of their dreams. more ›

• A regional newspaper photoshopped out the label “路政巡查” [Road Administration Patrol] from a vehicle that had hit and killed a 16-year-old in order to distance the accident from the government. People were pretty displeased when they found out. [Chinasmack]
• China has pretty darn good coverage even in its rural areas. Estimates hold that 99.86% of the country's administrative villages have telephone service, 91.5% have internet. [Xinhua]
• In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000, according to Robert Fogel. [Foreign Policy]

Heating up the Netease forums is this sorrowful story: a Guangdong husband brazenly brought his affair back home after 10 years of marriage. If that wasn't enough, he even made love to his mistress in front of his wife and requested her to sleep with them. more ›