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A BBC report (proxy needed) talks about the Confucian schools that are now thriving across China. And why are parents sending their kids to such schools?:

"Traditional culture has many advantages that cannot be learned by modern education," says Yu Fang, the mother of a three-year-old pupil. "It emphasises virtues like kindness and self-discipline. It is very good for my son and very good for Chinese society as well." Another mother, Wang Ching, agrees: "This is a material world, people want a higher standard of living and they are focused on material things, not spiritual ones." Modern China, with its headlong rush for growth, needs more balance and more of the social order and courtesy extolled by Confucius, she says. Confucianism and Communism have never been happy bedfellows... [read more]

Today I saw reports on CCTV-12 related to the crackdown on porn sites. And unlike other reports on murder, theft, and sexual crimes, I thought there was a problem with these reports.

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently published a report about how much income you need in order to be classified as white-collar in various Chinese cities. At the top of the list was Hong Kong, where you needed to make at least 18,500 RMB. As for some of the other cities:The benchmarks in some major cities at the upper end are: 8,900 yuan ($1,194) in Macao, 5,350 yuan ($717) in Shanghai, 5,280 yuan ($708)...

Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) has released its fifth annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which saw American universities take eight of the top ten spots. Harvard University emerged right on top, followed by Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley. Britain's Oxford and Cambridge -- the only two non-American universities to make it to the top ten -- secured the fourth and tenth positions respectively. The top university in Asia was the University of Tokyo, edging in at the twentieth spot.

With a title like that, who could resist? The Shanghai Daily report in question discusses the recent controversy surrounding noted professor Li Yinhe (李银河) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The article is an opinion piece written by Jiang Yunsheng and says that while he/she respects Li's research on sexuality ...

Shanghaiist went to Big Bamboo early this morning to watch a ref from Uruguay dominate the World Cup match between the U.S. and Italy. Shortly before the 3 a.m. match time, we plopped ourselves down on stools upstairs with a prime view of the bar's only big screen TV. That's when we were told that they were closing the upstairs part of the bar and asking everyone to watch the match downstairs, because they wanted to create an "atmosphere." Um, OK. Who wants to watch the World Cup on a big screen anyway?

The Virtual Shanghai project is backed by a team of experts from Institut d'Asie Orientale and the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme in Lyon, France, East China Normal University, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Library. Here's how they describe the project on the site:

From the China Daily:

OK, not quite. But Shanghaiist discovered the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences is studying this problem. According to this report (in Chinese), the SASS has released the results of its research into that most profound of subjects -- human happiness (or the lack thereof). They began by interviewing 4,950 residents of Shanghai from all walks of life to find out what makes them happy. One of their astounding results is that professional success and income do not determine happiness. Another interesting conclusion is that men's happiness level tends to increase as they enter middle-age (owing to greater professional success, income -- even though that kind of contradicts the first statement), while women tend to see their happiness decrease in proportion to the pressure of raising kids and taking care of parents. We haven't seen the whole report, but our inner social scientist surmises that sex (or the lack thereof) has something to do with this as well. Actually, we could never cut it as social scientists -- we actually read this report (in Chinese), which refers to a study done four years ago (nationwide, we believe) that found that in terms of achieving orgasm, men garnered 62.5 points while women only got 38.6 points. We're not sure if these "points" mean percentage (that's our guess, at least) or something else. Shanghaiist knows that there are starving children out there and all, but we're still making a plea for better sex, because that too is a way of making the world a better place for you, me and the entire human race. If you need some tips on positions (in Chinese), you can find plenty of information on the internet. There's just no excuse for unhappiness!

Sexual harassment, which apparently had been legal in China, is now on its way to becoming a crime, according to Xinhua: