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Dialects or Other Languages

My friend from GW’s poli sci department, Enze, is spending the summer in Kunming, China. He is doing exploratory research to figure out his dissertation topic there. He has some interesting stories on his blog here. (He has another blog at wordpress here, but interestingly wordpress is blocked in China.) He visited some remote villages [...]

China’s Bachelor-Heavy Future

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Wifeless future for China’s men
It seems like a serious problem. But I find this Ms. Zheng’s comment a bit funny.
“It’s having a real effect,” said Ms Zheng, the school’s head teacher. “One of our classes has 39 boys and just eight girls. It’s a serious problem. When there are more boys than girls, the girls [...]