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Gift Recycling: China’s Not-So-Underground Economy

As China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival this past week, countless gifts were exchanged by friends, families, and co-workers in homes and offices all across the country. In the days following the festival, many gifts changed hands once again, this time behind store counters and in narrow back alleys. These second exchanges were part of a [...]

What the hell’s with all these primary school attacks?

What the hell is going on? I know times are tough, I know there is huge economic disparity between the rich and the poor, I know nobody likes you, I know your boss made you lose face, I know society looks down on you, I know your parents beat you. But why the fuck do [...]

Save Money, Die Better

Cleptos beware, if you happen to be suspected of thievery from a Wal-Mart in Jiangxi province, you might just end up beaten to death. That is, at least, what happened to Yu Xiaochun a little more than a week ago. On August 30 the 37-year-old woman exited the Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, Wal-Mart and proceeded to her [...]

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