We always love it when someone highlights the amazing stuff students and amateurs are doing here in China. While the domestic industry for cartoons hasn't seem to have completely removed itself from copycatting Japan (usually, badly) or its own low production values, animations like this remind us that there IS real talent hiding beneath the surface. more ›

• A netizen compares teaching methods in the U.S. and China through the story of Cinderella. While the U.S. version is a little off (can you ever imagine an elementary school teacher telling girls that they're evil if they're ugly?), it's still an apt analysis. [ChinaSmack]
• Another U.S. and China comparison, this one more morbid. While in the U.S., people are fighting to keep abortion a choice, here in China, people are fighting to keep not aborting a choice. [Washington Post]
• A man in Shenyang is now renting himself out as a punching bag for stressed women. Being in Shanghai, we can just use our boyfriends. [Ananova]

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